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 …

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 …

workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

sales, and we show that import is even more concentrated than export both within sectors and along the sector and country …

international trade, together with some new facts. First, the availability of information on import and export enables us to … only import. We show that firms engaged in both import and export outperform those involved in either importing or … differentiate firms involved in both trading activities - namely two-way traders - from firms that only export, and from those that …

significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use world service export supply shocks, which we allocate to firms based …

Following along the lines of a growing literature on the causal link between export- ing and productivity this paper … production with het- erogeneous firms that generates learning effects through competition in the export markets. The estimations …

we consider both the impact of global competition through measures of import penetration and the impact of within …