This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...

Few industries are more concentrated than the global fashion industry. We analyse the geography and evolution of the ready-to-wear fashion design industry by looking at the yearly entry rates following an organizational ecology approach. In contrast to earlier studies on manufacturing...

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...

Zum 1. Januar 2005 sind für die Mitglieder der World Trade Organisation (WTO) alle Quoten, die bisher den Handel mit textilen Produkten eingeschränkt haben, weggefallen. Für das deutschen Textil- und Bekleidungsgewerbe wird dies aber wahrscheinlich keine direkten, gravierend negativen...