We examine how the rapid growth in imports of manufactured goods from China affected industry-level employment in … spill-over effects from input-output linkages. We estimate that growth in imports from China caused a loss in total … manufacturing employment of between 89,900 and 209,800 workers – accounting for 8.5 to 19.8 per cent of manufacturing employment in …

the share of informal employment. The industry-level results indicate that a rise in import penetration from either China … reduces the employment level, the share of employment in the population, the hourly wage, the interindustry wage premium, and … or the rest of the world (ROW) reduced the employment level, hourly wage, and share of informal employment while …