Impacts of increased Chinese imports on Japan’s labor market

Kazunobu Hayakawa, Tadashi Ito and Shujiro Urata

Japan and the World Economy, 2021, vol. 59, issue C

Abstract: Using the Japanese firm/establishment-level census data, we investigate the impact of the Chinese import penetration on employment in Japan. We found negative impacts of the Chinese import penetration on total employment, especially in industries producing competing products to Chinese imports, and a positive impact of the import penetration in the industries from which firms purchase their inputs (upstream import penetration). The negative impacts are mainly driven by firms’ exit from the market while positive impacts are enjoyed by surviving firms. We did not find any significant impacts of the penetration in the industries to which firms sell their products (downstream penetration).

Keywords: China; Japan; Import penetration; Labor market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 F53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2021.101087

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