This paper explores the effects of import competition on manufacturing sector in Chile following implementation country’s two largest Free Trade Agreements (FTA) (with USA and China). Exploiting cross-industry variation exposure, we analyse sales, employment labour productivity at finest level industrial classification (4 digit ISIC level). We detect an overall negative effect increased Chinese...

This paper investigates how investments in automation-intensive goods affects the gender pay gap. The evidence on effects of automation labour market is growing; however, little known about implications for data used are from a matched employer-employee dataset incorporating detailed information firms, their imports, and employee-level Estonian manufacturing services employers 2006–2018. We def...

With careful theoretical development and empirical data examination, this paper investigates several key factors that influence the IT usage in Shanghai firms: technology resource, human resource and environment resource. On the basis of the resource-based view and the process model, the study imports government regulation policies, as well as e-government actions, as environmental resource to ...

The Caribbean region has long been characterised by mono-crop agriculture for export while relying on costly imported goods to meet basic needs, a lingering legacy of plantation economies. Since World War II the trend has become increasingly evident in a regional shift away from domestic production of agricultural foodstuff s, resulting in an agricultural deficit as production decreased and foo...

Using confidential linked firm-level trade transactions and census data between 1997 and 2012, we provide new evidence on how American firms without foreign affiliates adjust employment and wages in response to import competition from low-income countries. We provide stylized facts on the input sourcing strategies of these domestic firms, with an emphasis on how their importing behavior differs...

We use data on Chinese manufacturing firms to study the connection between individual firm imports and firm export outcomes. Since our panel covers the years 2002 to 2006, we can use changes in import tariffs associated with China’s WTO entry as instruments. Our regression results show that firms that expanded their intermediate input imports expanded the volume of their exports and increased t...

In the context of introduction of deregulatory policy measures and subsequent wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Indian corporate sector since 1991, the present paper attempts to examine the welfare implications of this wave. It is found that M&A do not have any significant impact on consumers’ welfare. Instead, consumers’ welfare is significantly influenced by exports intensity, imports...

Estimating the price elasticity of China’s imports is difficult because many imports are used to produce exports and because the real effective exchange rate has remained fairly stable. To circumvent the first problem, we control for re-exports, and to increase the discriminatory power of the tests, we employ a panel data set including imports from 25 countries. The results indicate that a 10 p...