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Productivity Effects of TVE Privatization : The Case Study of Garment and Metal Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region

Sonobe, Tetsushi - 2003

While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the...

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Chinese Rural Industrial Productivity and Urban Spillovers

Peng, Yusheng - 1997

Chinese rural industry has grown three times faster than national GDP, surpassing agriculture in size in 1987, and now nearing half of the total Chinese economy. We use a rich, new county-level data set to explore this dramatic growth. We find that a Cobb-Douglas production function explains...

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Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity

Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019

The assignment of workers to tasks is an important feature of the organization of production within firms. We study how task allocation across workers changes in response to productivity shocks. Pairing hourly productivity data from a ready-made garments firm with granular data on exposure to...

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Gender Wage Gaps and Worker Mobility : Evidence from the Garment Sector in Bangladesh

Menzel, Andreas - 2019

Data from 70 large export-oriented garment manufacturers in Bangladesh show that gender wage gaps are similar to those found in higher-income countries. Among production workers, women's wages are 8 percent lower. We show that by combining short administrative panels, survey data from a...

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AGOA Rules : The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Special Fabric Provisions

Edwards, Lawrence - 2010

But the disappointments can also be attributed to the preferences because they discouraged additional value-addition in assembly and stimulated the use of expensive fabrics that were unlikely to be produced locally. When the MFA was removed, constrained countries such as China moved strongly...

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Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution

Clark, Gregory - 2008

For two decades, the consensus explanation of the British Industrial Revolution has placed technological change and the supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade...

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China's Experience Under the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) and the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC)

Brambilla, Irene - 2007

This paper analyzes China's experience under U.S. apparel and textile quotas. It makes use of a unique new database that tracks U.S. trading partners' performance under the quota regimes established by the global Multifiber Arrangement (1974 to 1995) and subsequent Agreement on Textiles and...

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Product Differentiation, Multi-product Firms and Estimating the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity

De Loecker, Jan - 2007

In this paper I analyze the productivity gains from trade liberalization in the Belgian textile industry. So far, empirical research has established a strong relationship between opening up to trade and productivity, relying almost entirely on deflated sales to proxy for output in the production...

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Learning-by-Producing and the Geographic Links Between Invention and Production : Experience From the Second Industrial Revolution

Sutthiphisal, Dhanoos - 2006

This paper investigates the impact of ¡§learning-by-producing¡¨ on inventive activity and shows that, in both emerging (electrical equipment and supplies) and maturing (shoes and textiles) industries, the geographic association between invention and production was rather weak during the...

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India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule : New Ideas, New Evidence

Clingingsmith, David - 2004

India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 …th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market. Other local industries also suffered … world market integration and rapid productivity advance in European manufacturing), both of which had to deal with an offset …

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