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land s controlled by governments. It s also frequently reported that local
governments erect barriers to bar products from other regions. However,
there are no complete and accurate data to enable the calculaton of tarff-
like protection in Chinese regions. For this reason, a hypothetical scenario
is constructed to investigate this issue. Specifically, a set of elasticities are
chosen to mtate domestc market reforms.
Elastctes of transformaton or substtuton usually descrbe the
difference between two goods or factors. However, they may also reflect
how easly one good or factor can be transformed or substtuted nto
another. For example, a higher elasticity of transformation between rural
and urban labour also descrbes the hgher moblty of labour from rural to
urban areas. In this sense, the domestic market reform can be represented
by ncreases n selected elastctes. These elastctes nclude the elastcty
of transformation between agricultural, non agricultural and migrant labour
(from 0.1 to 1); the elastcty of transformaton between dfferent land
uses (from 0.05 to 0.5); the elastcty of substtuton between commodtes
produced locally and n other regons (Table 6.5); and the elastcty of
substtuton between dfferent types of labour (from 4 to 14).
Table 6.5
Elastctes of substtuton between local and other products
Comm Orgnal New
Comm Orgnal New
Comm Orgnal New
Comm Orgnal New
crop
4.4
10.4
aprl
8.8 10.4
eltn
5.6 10.4 trad
3.8
10.4
Frst
5.6
10.4
furn
5.6 10.4
inst
5.6 10.4 cate
3.8
10.4
Live
4.6
10.4
papr
3.6 10.4
main
5.6 10.4 past
3.8
10.4
Fish
5.6
10.4
ptpc
3.8 10.4
omnp
5.6 10.4 fina
3.8
10.4
Otha
5.6
10.4
chem
3.8 10.4
scrp
5.6 10.4 rest
3.8
10.4
coal
5.6
10.4
nmmp 5.6 10.4
powr
5.6 10.4 sser
3.8
10.4
Petr
5.6
10.4
mtsp
5.6 10.4
gasp
5.6 10.4 heth
3.8
10.4
mtom
5.6
10.4
mtlp
5.6 10.4
watr
5.6 10.4 educ
3.8
10.4
nmtm
5.6
10.4
mach
5.6 10.4
cons
3.8 10.4 scir
3.8
10.4
Fdtp
4.9
10.4
treq
10.4 10.4
tran
3.8 10.4 teks
3.8
10.4
Txtl
4.4
10.4
eltc
5.6 10.4
ptlc
3.8 10.4 padm
3.8
10.4
Note: See sector classification abbreviations at Table A6.1.
Source: Author's constructon.
 
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