Impacts of Increased Chinese Imports on Japan's Labor Market

Kazunobu Hayakawa, Tadashi Ito and Shujiro Urata

Discussion papers from Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)

Abstract: Using Japanese firm/establishment level census data, we investigate the impact of Chinese import penetration on employment in Japan. We found negative impacts of Chinese import penetration on total employment, especially for industries that produce competing products to Chinese imports, and a positive impact of 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 industries to which firms sell their products (downstream penetration).

Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2019-11
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