Xianjia Ye - Research

Here under are the list of publications and (close to) finished research projects that I have participated. Downloadable links for many of them are provided although a few are behind the paywall. Links to the replication package of some are also provided. Not all external research are shown due to confidentiality.

Global Supply Chain in General

Labour demand in global value chains: Is there a bias against unskilled work? 2021. With Laurie REIJNDERS and Marcel TIMMER. Earlier working paper version (2016) in circulation here.
Accounting for growth and productivity in global value chains. 2020. With Marcel TIMMER.
Italië en Spanje zijn samen economisch even belangrijk voor Nederland als het VK (Italy and Spain together are economically as important as UK for the Netherlands). 2020. With Bart LOS.
Productivity and Substitution Patterns in Global Value Chains. 2018. With Marcel TIMMER. Appear as a handbook chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Productivity Analysis. Library repository can be found here.
Industry-level estimates of export quality, accounting for global value chains. 2025. With Konstantin WACKER, Dea TUSHA, and Asia CELANI.

E.S.G.

Labour Market Inequalities: Impacts of Technology and The Changing Nature of International Trade (2000-2014). 2023. With Bart LOS and Gaaitzen de VRIES
Quantifying the impact of international fragmentation of production on gender inequality. 2023. With Bart LOS and Gaaitzen de VRIES
Functional Specialization in Global Supply Chains and the Environmental Performance of Countries. 2022. With Bart LOS.

Development and Structural Change

The Occupation Content of Trade. 2025. With Hagen KRUSE, Marcel TIMMER, and Gaaitzen de VRIES. A more extensive working paper version is titled as Export Diversification from an Activity Perspective: An Exploration Using Occupation Data, 2023, and the replication data and codes can be found in this repository. A much earlier version with a smaller sample can be found here.
The Impact of Technological Progress, Globalisation and Labour Mobility on Employment Structures. 2023. With Bart LOS.

Economic Geography

Functional upgrading and downgrading in global value chains: Evidence from EU regions using a relatedness/complexity framework. 2025. With Ron BOSCHMA, Eduardo HERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ and Andrea MORRISON. Library repository can be found here.
The role of complementary interregional linkages for functional upgrading and downgrading of global value chains in EU regions. 2025. With Ron BOSCHMA, Eduardo HERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ and Andrea MORRISON.
Regionale ontwikkeling en brede welvaart (Regional Development and Broad Social Welfare). 2024. With Hein ROELFSEMA.

Services

RCEP and Modern Services. 2022. With Christopher FINDLAY and Hein ROELFSEMA. Appear as a handbook chapter in Dynamism of East Asia and RCEP: The Framework for Regional Integration. See also the more comprehensive ERIA Working Paper version.
Decomposing International Trade in Commercial Services, 2021. With Christopher FINDLAY and Hein ROELFSEMA.

External research

De Stand van de Noorden, 2e editie (The Position of Northern Netherlands, 2nd Edition). December 2021.
The Employment Impact of the NortH2 Project. December 2020. See also news coverage here.