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China import competition and El Salvador manufacturing firm performance
Li, Kun; Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - 2019
In this paper, we analyze the impact of Chinese competition on manufacturing firms in El Salvador between 2005 and 2013 using manufacturing survey data and customs transaction data. We find that Chinese import competition in El Salvador has a negative effect on firms employment, total factor...
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The impact of import competition from China on firm performance in the Peruvian manufacturing sector
Mercado, Eduardo; Pierola, Martha Denisse; … - 2019
This paper studies the impact that import competition from China had on firms performance in the manufacturing sector … cumulative impact on net sales when we account for longer timeframes. Looking at import competition from China in third markets …
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Trade, productivity, innovation, and employment : lessons from the impact of Chinese competition on manufacturing in Brazil
Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita; Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol; … - 2020
This paper uses the sudden surge in Chinese competition faced by Brazil's manufacturers in the 2000s to revisit the findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period of massive trade opening in the early 1990s in Latin...
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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills : is Latin America different?
López Bóo, Florencia - 2013
This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...
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Import competition in the manufacturing sector in Peru : its impact on informality and wages
Pierola, Martha Denisse; Sanchez-Navarro, Dennis - 2019
This paper studies the impact of import competition from China on informality and wages in the Peruvian manufacturing … surge in imports from China on the likelihood of being hired in the informal sector and on wages in both the formal and … find that the increase in imports from China was also detrimental to the least-educated workers (those with an elementary …
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The heterogeneous impacts of import competition on Mexican manufacturing plants
Blyde, Juan S.; Fentanes, Oscar - 2019
import penetration across industries. Focusing on the increase in import competition from China that Mexico experienced … penetration from China. …
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Climbing up India's manufacturing export ladder : how competitive are intermediate goods?
Das, Deb Kusum; Gupta, Neha - 2019
The rising trade in intermediate goods accounts for almost two-thirds of world’s trade (MGI, 2019). India's export share for intermediate goods in its total exports has increased from 31.18% in 2011 to 32.52% in 2016. Moreover, India's overall share in world merchandise exports has itself...
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Export promotion organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean : an institutional portrait
Jordana, Jacint; Volpe Martincus, Christian; Gallo, … - 2010
Virtually all Latin American and Caribbean countries have established specialized organizations to promote their exports. Existing analyses of these organizations are at best partial and fragmentary. This paper aims at overcoming these limitations of the literature by presenting a consistent,...
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The labor market power of exporting firms : evidence from Latin America
Amodio, Francesco; Brancati, Emanuele; Roux, Nicolás de; … - 2024
Using establishment-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, we assess the market power of exporting firms across 16 countries in Latin America. Leveraging information on export destinations, as well as exchange rate and price data, we construct exchange rate-driven shocks to the...
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European and Chinese trade competition in third markets : the case of Latin America
García Herrero, Alicia; Marbach, Thibault; Xu, Jianwei - 2018
China’s increasingly important role in the global economy has transformed the nature of global competition and reshaped … very large trade surplus. We address whether China is an increasingly relevant competitor for Europe in third markets, and … in relative exporting prices). Our results show that the degree of competition between China and the EU in Latin America …
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