Comments by Frank Walsh, on The Effect of Import Competition on Wages in the Japanese Manufacturing Sector

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February 01 2018 Comments by Frank Walsh, on The Effect of Import Competition on Wages in the Japanese Manufacturing Sector Author and Article Information Online Issn: 1536-0083 Print Issn: 1535-3516 © 2018 by the Asian Economic Panel and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2018Massachusetts Institute of Technology Asian Economic Papers (2018) 17 (1): 69–70. https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00586 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Comments by Frank Walsh, on The Effect of Import Competition on Wages in the Japanese Manufacturing Sector. Asian Economic Papers 2018; 17 (1): 69–70. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00586 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsAsian Economic Papers Search Advanced Search Frank Walsh: This paper makes a number of important contributions. In terms of data, a new worker firm panel is assembled by combining data across a range of surveys. This allows the author to control for a range of characteristics including firm-level fixed effects. This makes the evidence much more convincing. Although it is unfortunate that data constraints prevent the author from tracing workers over time, a range of worker individual-level controls are included. Hummels et al. (2014) is discussed as a reference for the instrumental variables (IV) approach adopted in the paper. In this approach, the world export supply net of home country imports is used as an instrument for offshoring. Interestingly, Hummels et al. (2014) also use world import demand net of home country exports as an instrument for exports, which might be interesting for future work. The estimated IV effects for annual income... You do not currently have access to this content.