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Fast fashion : theory and evidence from Portuguese textile and clothing firms
Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - 2020
textile and clothing exporters' monthly transactions and exploit the exogenous increase in competition following the removal …
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Does emigration drain entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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Attitudes towards globalization barriers and implications for voting : evidence from Sweden
Karakas, Leyla D.; Kim, Nam Seok; Mitra, Devashish - 2021
attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In …. Once various economic and demographic determinants of globalization barrier preferences along with voters’ ideologies on a … more traditional electoral issues, such as trade barriers, work. Focusing on the anti-globalization Swedish Democrats, we …
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020
the host country’s culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …
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Offshoring along the production chain
Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver; Urban, Dieter M. - 2009
Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....
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Firm heterogeneity and the labour market effects of trade liberalisation
Egger, Hartmut (contributor); Kreickemeier, Udo (contributor) - 2007
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The domestic segment of global supply chains in China under state capitalism
Tang, Heiwai; Wang, Fei; Wang, Zhi - 2014
This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard IO-table based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. Using Chinese firm census data for both manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained optimization techniques, we...
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Decoupling global value chains
Eppinger, Peter S.; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Krebs, Oliver; … - 2021
Recent disruptions to global value chains (GVCs) have raised an important question: Can decoupling from GVCs increase a country’s welfare by reducing its exposure to foreign supply shocks? We use a quantitative trade model to simulate GVCs decoupling, defined as increased barriers to global...
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Globally engaged firms in the Covid-19 crisis
Constantinescu, Cristina; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; … - 2022
This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...
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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
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