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Regional integration and productivity: the experiences of Brazil and Mexico
López-Córdova, Ernesto; Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002136793
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Moving Skills from Hands to Heads : Does Importing Technology Affect Export Performance in Textiles?
Galeotti, Marzio; Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Mattozzi, Andrea - 2004
This paper examines the link between imported technologies and a country's export performance, as measured by product quality. The analysis is set in the background of the process of regional integration between the European Union (EU) and its neighbouring developing countries. The underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067994
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International Trade, Regional Free Trade Agreements, and Economic Development
Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H. - 1998
Krugman (1991a,b) illustrated that natural (regional) free trade agreements (FTAs) are likely welfare enhancing if intercontinental transport costs are prohibitively high, but are likely welfare reducing if such costs are zero. Frankel, Stein and Wei (1995) extended the analysis to consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074410
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Is NAFTA Polarizing Mexico? Or El Sur Tambien Existe? Spatial Dimensions of Mexico's Post-Liberalization Growth
Aroca, Patricio; Maloney, William F.; Bosch Mossi, Mariano - 2003
Standard parametric tests of convergence cannot capture whether the increased dispersion among state incomes is due to a steepening gradient between north and south, a few hot states randomly distributed, or as an intermediate position, the emergence of convergence clubs. This paper tests for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014085597
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Firm performance and trade with low-income countries : evidence from China
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg; Wang, Luhang - 2014
evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm-productivity: i) only the most productive firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401747
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The effects of the Chinese imports on Brazilian manufacturing workers
Paz, Lourenço Senne; Kapri, Kul Prasad - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/76, pp. 1-22
manufacturing workers during 2000–2012. In this period, import penetration in Brazil grew by 25 percent, and the Chinese share of it …
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The impact of the China shock on the manufacturing labor market in Brazil
Paz, Lourenço Senne - 2019
The vigorous growth of the Chinese economy together with its growing role in international trade has raised fears of deindustrialization among developing countries. This study draws on the large increase in the international trade exposure of the Brazilian economy from 2000 to 2012 to assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154672
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The quality-complementarity hypothesis : theory and evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice (contributor); Verhoogen, Eric (contributor) - 2009
, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794048
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Import competition, domestic regulation and firm-level productivity growth in the OECD
Yahmed, Sarra Ben; Dougherty, Sean M. - 2012
This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in … product market regulation measures depending on firms' positions along the global distribution of productivity levels. The … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690932
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China’s Firm-Level Processing Trade : Trends, Characteristics, and Productivity
Yu, Miaojie - 2012
-level total factor productivity using the Olley–Pakes approach suggests that processing firms are less productive than non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107903