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 …

The paper analyses the impact of import penetration on firms’ profitability in 15 manufacturing industries in 10 euro … area countries during 1995-2004, focusing on the role of emerging market economies. Our results indicate that import … competition from emerging market economies has had an overall negative impact on companies’ profitability in the euro area …