Mingze Xia's Homepage

Hi! This is Mingze (Taku) Xia's website.

I am a third-year Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University. I mainly study development economics and labor economics. Now, I focus on how China's economic reform policies shape the individual decision-making process and labor market structure. 

I am on the 2026–2027 job market. My Job Market Paper, “State-Sector Distortions, Mobility Costs, and Labor Market Transition in China,” is available here.