This paper studies the impact of import competition from China on informality and wages in the Peruvian manufacturing … informal sectors. The results suggest that greater import competition increased the chances of working in the informal sector …

This paper studies the impact that import competition from China had on firms performance in the manufacturing sector … cumulative impact on net sales when we account for longer timeframes. Looking at import competition from China in third markets …

We study the impact of import competition on Mexican firm outcomes between 2003 and 2013 by exploiting variation in … import penetration across industries. Focusing on the increase in import competition from China that Mexico experienced … reallocation of resources has been productivity-enhancing, particularly in sectors that have experienced large-scale import …

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm …-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …

negative effects of import competition and benefit from Chinese imports at higher productivity growth intensities. The effects …

We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States … turning negative. Second, communities more exposed to import competition from China have experienced a greater deterioration …

, particularly for firms that did not trade altogether prior to the import start and for build-up periods of two and three years … towards the import start. I do not find evidence that firms become more productive after an import start because of learning …

We test the impact of import penetration on the productivity of a sample of roughly 35,000 Italian manufacturing firms … operating in the period 1996-2003, considering the impact on productivity of both import penetration in the same industry and … import penetration in the up-stream industries. We also distinguish the source country of imports. We find that: 1) import …

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between Chinese import competition and gendered labor market outcomes within … with trade data covering the years 1997-2010. Thus, we map out the effect of trade shocks from import surges on labor force … participation and compensation, decomposed by gender. Results from the study show that rising import competition from China had a …