I use Feenstra and Hanson's (2003) outsource-driven framework to investigate the effect of imports in intermediate inputs on the demand for skilled and unskilled labor in Australia. Using a panel data on six two-digit manufacturing industries over the period from 1986/87 to 1994/95, the results...

This paper analyses the effect of competition from low-wage countries on domestic activity, using data on 230 Italian manufacturing sectors between 1995 and 2007. We find that low-wage import penetration is negatively related to employment and other measures of activity. The effect is...

The creation of a single market in Europe builds on the wellgrounded belief that the removal of constraints on economic activity between Member States will serve to boost economic prosperity. European businesses, even small ones and those that operate locally, need to understand and even respond...