The paper analyses the impact of import penetration on firms’ profitability in 15 manufacturing industries in 10 euro … area countries during 1995-2004, focusing on the role of emerging market economies. Our results indicate that import …

that, both industry-level import competition andfirm-level outsourcing to China reducefirm employment growth and induce … imports is large. Industry import competition from China accounts for 42% of the withinfirm increase in the share of skilled …

explanation. The studies on the issue addressed increasing import dependency of the manufacturing sector in Turkey. This paper has … did, but also at the other sectors of the economy. Using 1998 and 2002 Input -Output Tables, import requirement ratios … trade; repair of motor vehicles and household goods" sector to the increasing import dependency, hence to significantly …

indicate that, both industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing to China reduce firm employment growth and … Chinese imports is large. Industry import competition from China accounts for 42% (20%) of the within firm increase in the …

estimation results, we relate productivity estimates with import competition, using firm and product level measures of import … competition. We find that if productivity at the firm level tends to positively react to increased import competition, the multi …-product firms response varies according to the relative importance of the product that faces stronger import competition in the firm …