This paper documents the effects of increased import competition from China on the Italian labour market. In line with … markets and manufacturing workers. Our analysis shows that Italy’s local labour markets, which were more exposed to Chinese … trade because of their industry composition, ended up suffering larger manufacturing and overall employment losses …

This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition … from the People's Republic of China (PRC) experience greater skill upgrading (increased demand for skilled workers). Using …, this has not resulted in substituting skilled workers in Japanese manufacturing. Rather, it has had the profound positive …

negative effects of import competition and benefit from Chinese imports at higher productivity growth intensities. The effects …We revisit the impact of rising imports from China on within firm labour productivity growth in the EU. The period … analysed is 2003 through 2016 and thus covers the recent increase of technology-intensive imports from China. We find that …

The import competition literature suggests that Chinese industrial policies and technological trends have altered the … nature of competition with China so that it does not take place on a level playing field anymore. Empirical evidence about … firms' reactions in developed economies to competition with China is inconclusive, however. This paper studies how small …

reconcile these findings by linking part of the increase in domestic concentration to import competition. Although concentration … increase. We find that higher import competition caused a decline in the market shares of the top twenty U.S. firms. … States over the last three decades. Using confidential census data for the manufacturing sector, we show that typical …

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

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