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Skill mismatch and returns to education in manufacturing: A case of India's textile and clothing industry

Kukreja, Prateek - 2018

: Textiles and Clothing (T&C). The study is based on the 68th round of NSS Employment and Unemployment Survey estimates. Using …

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India - Pakistan trade: Textiles and clothing

Taneja, Nisha; Ray, Saon; Pande, Devyani - 2016

pronounced in textiles rather than clothing, and cotton yarn is the most traded textile item. Despite that, there is a high level … of intra-industry trade in clothing and apparels. This reflects complementarities in trade in textiles and clothing … on the informal trade in textiles between the countries and views from industry stakeholders, thereby suggesting removal …

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Brazil's automotive and textile sectors during the Covid-19 pandemic: Crisis, repercussions and responses from the government, companies and labor unions

de Conti, Bruno; Welle, Arthur; Breda, Diógenes Moura - 2023

In addition to the severe health crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic provoked one of the deepest socioeconomic crises in the history of capitalism. Yet, the economic structure of each country and the strength of the welfare state, along with the ability of the diverse governments to cope with the...

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What determines informal hiring? Evidence from the Turkish textile sector

Savasan, Fatih; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

Most studies about the shadow economy focus on the estimation of the aggregate size. However, this study aims to address the sectoral or micro aspects of this phenomenon using the data from the textile sector in Turkey. It uses discriminant analysis and ordered and logistic regression models to...

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Cost & productivity in Indian textiles: Post MFA implications

Hashim, Danish A. - 2004

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Post-MFA Adjustments in India's Textile and Apparel Industry: Emerging Issues and Trends

Tewari, Meenu - 2005

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Deepening Intraregional Trade and Investment in South Asia: The Case of the Textiles and Clothing Industry

Tewari, Meenu - 2008

the lens of a sector that is salient throughout South Asia: Textiles and Clothing. Despite the growing competitiveness of … and Pakistan are net exporters of textiles. At one level the history of external ties matters: the long standing role of … positive trends already underway. In addition, SAARC could enhance interregional integration in textiles and clothing by …

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"By a silken thread": Regional banking integration and pathways to financial development in Japan's Great Recession

Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - 2012

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to study this question. Regional differences in banking integration affected how the recession spread across the country: financing frictions for credit-dependent firms were more...

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Labour Market Adjustment to Economic Downturns in the Catalan TextileIndustry, 1880-1910. Did Employers Breach Implicit Contracts?

Domenech, Jordi - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper studies the way workers and firms behaved in a highly cyclical sector such as the cotton textile industry, which encompassed 1/5 of the Catalan industrial workforce in the early 20th century. Using firm level evidence from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the paper shows that,...

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Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago.

Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

New data on individual worker’s outputs show that New England ring spinners exhibited substantial on the job learning c. 1905. Despite this, variable capital-labour ratios meant high labour turnover reduced aggregate labour productivity only fractionally. The combination of variable...

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