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The rising trade in intermediate goods accounts for almost two-thirds of world’s trade (MGI, 2019). India's export …), which endorse immense potentials for moving up manufacturing export ladder. So far, literature has widely studied the …-Cost Analysis" (based on export unit values) to identify potential intermediate exports of India during the time-period 2012-14 and …
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This paper shows both theoretically and empirically how raw material rich countries use export restrictions upstream to …, I provide evidence that export restrictions on industrial raw materials upstream help promote manufacturing exports …
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This study sought to examine the main constraints to manufacturing export competitiveness in Tanzania. Using panel data … manufacturing export competitiveness. Specifically, the results revealed that foreign direct investment and tariffs have a negative … and significant effect on export competitiveness in Tanzania, while infrastructure, total investment, labour productivity …
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access global markets more successfully. Previous studies in the field of firm-level export performance have sought to … ascertain several important determinants of export performance however, giving little attention to the effect of clustering … towards the same. Hence, the current study empirically attempts to examine the effect of clustering on firm-export performance …
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‘trade shocks' by displaced workers shifting into higher-productivity export industries. Free trade agreements and China …
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Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...
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This study investigates the impact of increased import competition on gender wage and employment differentials in U.S. manufacturing over the period from 1976 to 1993. Increased import competition is expected to decrease the relative demand for workers in low-wage production occupations and the...
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In recent years, manufacturing firms in the United States have faced increasing import competition from low-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge in imports from China on innovation in the US...
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This paper evaluates the impact of Chinese import penetration on the innovation of Vietnamese manufacturing firms from 2011 to 2015, exploiting variations in import exposure by industry specialization and instrumenting for Chinese import penetration using Chinese global exports. Contrary to the...
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