Abstract: Traditional international trade research mainly analyzes the impact of import trade on the labor market of importing countries from the national and industry levels. With the continuous emergence of micro-enterprise data and micro-individual labor data, the research on import trade and labor market is more detailed. The dynamic change process of the adjustment of the local labor market by import trade is as follows. Import trade will have an impact on domestic enterprises in importing countries and bring about short-term unemployment. Under this background, workforce will flow across industries or areas, but the impacts on workers with different skill levels and workers of different genders are different. Labor market adjustments caused by import shocks will affect workers’ education investment decisions. Combining China’s reality, measuring the scale of labor mobility caused by import trade, measuring the cost of labor mobility, and using enterprise-level employee data to measure the impact of import trade on enterprise employment and wages are all issues that need to be further explored.
