TY - JOUR
T1 - The Effect of Import Competition on Wages in the Japanese Manufacturing Sector
AU - Endoh, Masahiro
N1 - Funding Information:
I am grateful to funding from the Ministry of Education, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities; Japan Society.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by the Asian Economic Panel and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - This study estimates the effect of import competition in the final goods market on workers' wages in the Japanese manufacturing sector by constructing a panel of matched workerfirm data for 19982013 wages. The baseline results show that import competition does not decrease unskilled workers' wages and increases the skill premia of workers with college degrees or those in managerial and professional positions. Large firms and firms with low productivity also increased their wage premia through import competition, but the degree of increase due to firm-level factors is much smaller than that due to factors related to workers' skill.
AB - This study estimates the effect of import competition in the final goods market on workers' wages in the Japanese manufacturing sector by constructing a panel of matched workerfirm data for 19982013 wages. The baseline results show that import competition does not decrease unskilled workers' wages and increases the skill premia of workers with college degrees or those in managerial and professional positions. Large firms and firms with low productivity also increased their wage premia through import competition, but the degree of increase due to firm-level factors is much smaller than that due to factors related to workers' skill.
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U2 - 10.1162/asep_a_00585
DO - 10.1162/asep_a_00585
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042517705
SN - 1535-3516
VL - 17
SP - 46
EP - 67
JO - Asian Economic Papers
JF - Asian Economic Papers
IS - 1
ER -