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Japan's Changing Industrial Landscape
Yusuf, Shahid - 2015
This paper explores various strategic options available to Japanese firms faced with the increasing market pressures in the global economy. Whether Japanese firms are able to retain the competitive edge will depend on the continuing gains in their manufacturing capability, their capacity to...
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Domestic Constraints, Firm Characteristics, and Geographical Diversification of Firm-Level Manufacturing Exports in Africa
Yoshino, Yutaka - 2008
Using firm-level data on manufacturing sectors in Africa, this paper addresses how domestic supply constraints and other firm characteristics explain the geographical orientation of firms' exports and the overall market diversification of African manufacturing exports. The degree of market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219055
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Trade Liberalization and Integration of Domestic Output Markets in Brazil
Reis, Jose Guilherme - 2018
This paper describes how different policy distortions have been impeding better integration of Brazil's external and … promote better allocation of resources across the economy. The main conclusion of the paper is that Brazil could gain … significantly from opening to foreign trade. Yet, for Brazil to take full advantage of the opportunities that external integration …
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Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics : Evidence from 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - 2017
This paper empirically studies the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. The paper uses variation in industry-speci?c tari? cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor demand shocks and examines regional...
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The Gendered Labor Market Impacts of Trade Liberalization : Evidence from Brazil
Gaddis, Isis - 2017
This paper investigates gender differences in the impact of Brazil's trade liberalization on labor market outcomes. To …
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Trade Liberalization, Employment Flows, and Wage Inequality in Brazil
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2016
wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade …
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Structural Change and Poverty Reduction in Brazil : The Impact of the Doha Round
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2016
connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts …
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The Poverty Impacts of the Doha Round in Cameroon : The Role of Tax Policy
Emini, Christian Arnault; Cockburn, John; Decaluwe, Bernard - 2005
The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index falling from 53.3 percent of inhabitants in 1996 to 40.2...
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Protection, Openness, and Factor Adjustment : Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in Uruguay
Casacuberta, Carlos - 2006
The authors use a panel of manufacturing firms to analyze the adjustment process in capital blue collar and white collar employment in Uruguay during a period of trade liberalization when average tariff protection fell from 43 to 14 percent. They calculate the desired factor levels arising from...
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Services Reform and Manufacturing Performance : Evidence from India
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2017
The growth of India's manufacturing sector since 1991 has been attributed mostly to trade liberalization and more permissive industrial licensing. This paper demonstrates thesignificant impact of a neglected factor: India's policy reforms in services. The authors examine the link between those...
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