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Globalization and the Gender Earnings Gap : Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia
Savchenko, Yevgeniya - 2016
, of apparel employment in developing countries. This paper focuses on how the forces of globalization, specifically the … traditional trade theory (e.g., the Heckscher-Ohlin and Stolper-Samuelson theorems) to analyze the effect of globalization on … effects of globalization that differentiates males and females as separate factors. This may be a fruitful alternative to …
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Enlargement and the textiles, clothing and footwear industry
Hanzl-Weiss, Doris - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 27 (2004) 6, pp. 923-945
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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition : theory and application to the German clothing industry
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 33 (2010) 8, pp. 1006-1022
This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and...
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Garment industry in Sri Lanka and the removal of GSP plus by EU
Bandara, Jayatilleke S.; Naranpanawa, Athula - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 38 (2015) 9, pp. 1438-1461
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AGOA and apparel : who captures the tariff rent in the presence of preferential market access?
Olarreaga, Marcelo; Özden, Çaglar - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 28 (2005) 1, pp. 63-77
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Apparel in South Asia
Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys - 2016
Apparel is the largest labor-intensive manufacturing industry in South Asia, and is a major employer of women. Although South Asia's apparel sector benefits from many of the same favorable conditions as East Asia's, performance in South Asian apparel remains well below that of East Asia. The...
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Stitches to riches? : apparel employment, trade, and economic development in South Asia
López Acevedo, Gladys; Roberson, Raymond - 2016 - Online-Ausg.
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To Sew or Not to Sew? Assessing the Welfare Effects of the Garment Industry in Cambodia
Mejia-Mantilla, Carolina - 2017
This paper uses the 2011 Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey to analyze the relationship between participation in the garment industry and household welfare. The analysis relies on propensity score matching estimators to investigate whether households that have at least one member employed in the...
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The effects of international scrutiny on manufacturing workers : evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh
Bossavie, Laurent; Cho, Yoonyoung; Heath, Rachel - 2019
After the tragic factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, the direct reforms and indirect responses of retailers have both plausibly affected workers in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh. These reforms include a minimum wage increase, high profile but voluntary audits, and an increased...
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Multi Fibre Arrangement and wage inequality : firm and state-level evidence from India and a theoretical model
Kar, Mausumi; Kar, Saibal - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 40 (2017) 7, pp. 1473-1493
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