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 worker–firm data for 1998–2013 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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进口竞争对日本制造业工资的影响

本研究通过构建 1998-2013 年工资匹配的工人-企业数据面板，估计最终产品市场的进口竞争对日本制造业工人工资的影响。基线结果表明，进口竞争不会降低非技术工人的工资，并增加具有大学学位的工人或担任管理和专业职位的工人的技能溢价。大企业和生产力低下的企业也通过进口竞争提高了工资溢价，但企业层面因素的增长幅度远小于工人技能相关因素的增长幅度。