理论上,贸易开放能够对居民所面临的外部风险和收入差距产生重要影响,从而作用于居民的再分配偏好。结合使用城市数据与微观数据,实证考察贸易开放对中国居民再分配偏好的影响。研究发现,贸易开放度对居民的再分配偏好具有显著的正向影响。进一步的渠道机制分析发现,贸易开放主要通过影响居民所面临的外部风险而作用于其再分配偏好。因此,为适应全球化的新形势与完成反贫困的任务,政府需要构筑一套社会安全网以缓解贸易开放对居民所带来的风险冲击。
In theory, trade openness can bring significant impact on the external risks faced by residents and the income gap, thus the residents' preference to redistribution will be affected. By making combined use of the urban data and micro-level data, this paper empirically examines the impact of trade openness on Chinese residents' preferences to redistribution. The results show that trade openness has a significant positive effect on their preferences to redistribution. Further channel mechanism analysis finds that the trade openness affects the residents' redistribution preference mainly by affecting the external risks faced by the residents. Therefore, in order to adapt to the new situation of globalization and to fulfill the task of anti-poverty, the government should build a social safety net to ease the risks to the residents brought by the trade openness.