We examine how the rapid growth in imports of manufactured goods from China affected industry-level employment in … manufacturing employment of between 89,900 and 209,800 workers – accounting for 8.5 to 19.8 per cent of manufacturing employment in … 1991. Such an effect seems best described as sizable, but not one that by itself spelled the end of manufacturing industry …

information derived from three data sources for the manufacturing sector in Ireland, where grant provision has been an important … important impetus to plant survival and employment growth. We also discover some differences in terms of the effectiveness of … grants between foreign multinationals and domestic plants. Specifically, while grants have helped to stimulate employment …

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …