This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition …, this has not resulted in substituting skilled workers in Japanese manufacturing. Rather, it has had the profound positive …

includes both intra-firm trade and foreign outsourcing). In response, we utilise a proprietary dataset on greenfield FDI. In …

Relative wages have been remarkably rigid for the last two decades in Danish manufacturing despite large shifts in … employment of skilled labor and changes in the unemployment rate. Furthermore, we show that international outsourcing has played …

-wage countries onfirm growth, exit, and skill upgrading in manufacturing. For this purpose we use both industry-level andfirm …-level imports by country of origin and distinguish betweenfirm-level outsourcing of nal versus intfirmediate goods. Results indicate … that, both industry-level import competition andfirm-level outsourcing to China reducefirm employment growth and induce …

-wage countries on firm growth, exit, and skill upgrading in manufacturing. For this purpose we use both industry-level and firm …-level imports by country of origin and distinguish between firm-level outsourcing of final versus intermediate goods. Results … indicate that, both industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing to China reduce firm employment growth and …

-wage countries on firm growth, exit, and skill upgrading in manufacturing. For this purpose we use both industry-level and firm …-level imports by country of origin and distinguish between firm-level outsourcing of final versus intermediate goods. Results … indicate that, both industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing to China reduce firm employment growth and …

This paper aims at investigating the evolution of the employment and wage structure of Italian manufacturing firms in …