Australia has one of the highest per capita carbon emissions and its energy sector contributes significantly to the countries carbon emissions. Renewable energy and climate change targets call for a shift from fossil fuels to low-carbon technologies for energy production. Policies aiming to...

We examine how the rapid growth in imports of manufactured goods from China affected industry-level employment in Australia from 1991 to 2006. Our analysis incorporates both the direct effect from increased import competition, and indirect spill-over effects from input-output linkages. We...