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 …

This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition …

estimation results, we relate productivity estimates with import competition, using firm and product level measures of import … competition. We find that if productivity at the firm level tends to positively react to increased import competition, the multi …-product firms response varies according to the relative importance of the product that faces stronger import competition in the firm …

This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition …

training events. Using industry level exchange rates as an instrument for import shares, we find that rising imports lead …