large garment factories in Bangladesh to test for inefficient representation of women among line supervisors. We identify …

higher country concentration of exporters. We also find the effects of the MFA on clothing trade were more significant than … for textiles trade. The benefits from freer trade in textiles and clothing shed light on other sectors that are still …

retain part of this rent, i.e. share it with the exporters. We analyze US imports of apparel products from Hong Kong to see …

International trade in apparel and textiles is regulated by a system of bilateral tariffs and quotas known as the … tariffs that comprise the MFA, we analyze how the MFA affects the sources and prices of US apparel imports, with a particular … focus on the effects on East Asian exporters during the 1990s. We show that while a large fraction of US apparel is imported …

unique dataset that allows us to measure the retail demand for timely delivery, we show that the sources of US apparel …

or even negative at some point in the past. This paper studies apparel prices over the long period 1914-93, developing … have found the opposite relationship for apparel prices, although presumably for the same reason. The Sears matched …-model indexes do not exhibit a consistent negative or positive drift relative to the CPI. For womens' apparel the drift is always …

Data from 70 large export-oriented garment manufacturers in Bangladesh show that gender wage gaps are similar to those …