摘要:增加就业是一国经济发展的重要目标，而对外贸易和就业之间有着不可分割的重要联系。对外贸易既会影响到就业弹性，也会对就业需求产生直接影响。经济一体化以来，对外贸易对经济增长的影响成为经济学界研究的热点，但是研究的重点主要放在出口对经济增长的影响上。随着进口关税的降低和其他非贸易壁垒的大量减少，我国进口规模越来越大，一味强调出口的贸易政策正受到越来越多的质疑，众多学者和政府机构开始逐渐重视进口贸易对经济发展的促进作用。本文主要以制造业为例从理论和实证两个方面分析我们制造业进口的扩大对制造业就业人数的影响，最终得出我国制造业领域进口的不断扩大对于国内就业具有正向影响。

关键词：制造业；进口贸易；就业

Abstract:Employment is an important goal of economic development. There is an indivisible relationship between employment and Trade. Since the economic integration，the influence that foreign trade imposes on the growth of economy has been a hot spot for research, but those researches only stressed the influence that exports impose on the economic growth. Nowadays, with a more open market, China has more trade businesses with other countries all over the world. The trade relation between china and other countries is becoming more and more close. The trade policy applied in the past, which overemphasized export trade, is now facing a severe challenge. In order to comply with global trade regulation, Chinese government and academic circles have to rethink about the effect that imports have on the economic growth. This paper mainly take manufacturing industry for example, analysis how the expand imported affect the manufacturing employment with both theoretical and empirical method, eventually got that there have positive influence on domestic employment.

Keywords:manufacturing; import trade; employment