Author: Michael R. MetzgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing trade
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A Recalculation of Cline's Estimates of the Gains to Trade Liberalization in the Textile and Apparel Industries
Author: Michael R. MetzgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing trade
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A Recalculation of Cline's Estimates of the Gains to Trade Liberalization in the Textile and Apparel Industries
Author: Michael R. MetzgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing trade
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Reconsidering the Benefits and Costs of Trade Protection
Author: Robert E. ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing trade
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A Study of the Textile and Apparel Industries
Author: Council on Wage and Price Stability (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing trade
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Direct Employment Effect of Imports on the U.S. Textile Industry
Author: Joseph PelzmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign trade and employment
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Research paper developing an econometric model to estimate the direct economic implications of increased import trade liberalization for productivity and employment in the USA textile industry - using empirical evidence, suggests that proposed tariff reductions will have minor impact on domestic output and jobs, differing from previous studies whose restrictive assumptions lead to much higher displacement estimates. Bibliography pp. 30 to 35.
Annual Report of the Federal Trade Commission for the Fiscal Year Ended ...
Author: United States. Federal Trade CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trade regulation
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An Economic Analysis of U.S. Textile and Apparel Imports and Profit Ratios in the U.S. Textile and Apparel Industries
Author: Peter Donald WhitneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing trade
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Dynamic Response to Trade Policy: Evidence from the U.S. Textile and Clothing Industries
Author: Lucas ThreinenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781267610881
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
I study the behavior of textile and clothing makers in the U.S. as they were exposed to a large, anticipated increase in foreign competition through the removal of import quotas. I find a strong decline in capital investment in the industries that are likely to be the most vulnerable to such competition. The decline appears just after announcement of the policy, which is as many as nine years before the scheduled liberalization date. I present models of optimal industry investment in the presence of capital adjustment costs, and I establish their predictions regarding these industries when trade liberalization is to be introduced. Using industry panel data, I examine developments in the output and capital markets for these industries, and I find that they are broadly consistent with the models' predictions. A simulation using plausible parameter values produces a path for investment that closely matches the observed path. These findings suggest that capital adjustment costs played a central role in driving the dynamics that were precipitated by this episode of trade liberalization. Using plant-level data from the U.S. Census, I find that reductions in both the number of plants and in investment per plant played important roles in the decline. Investment per plant declined more for older plants, while plant counts fell more among younger plants. Plants that exported had somewhat higher survival chances, while the opposite was true of plants that were members of multi-plant firms. However, the decline in survival was still fairly uniform across these and a variety of other plant characteristics.
The Regional Welfare Effects of U.S. Import Restraints on Apparel, Petroleum, Steel and Textiles
Author: Michael R. MetzgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Who Benefits and How Much? How Gender Affects Welfare Impacts of a Booming Textile Industry
Author: Alessandro NicitaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Exports of textile products originating from Sub-Saharan African countries have grown dramatically in the past decade. Recent trade initiatives, such as the quot;African Growth Opportunity Actquot; and quot;Everything but Arms,quot; along with low labor costs and improved integration into world markets, are giving further stimulus to the growth of the textile and apparel industry in Sub-Saharan African countries.Nicita and Razzaz explore the extent to which the poor are also beneficiaries of the export-led growth of particular economic sectors, or whether the poor are unable to reap any of the benefits and therefore fall further behind. They use a methodology that combines the matching methods literature (to identify individuals more likely to fill the new jobs of the expanding sector) with the industry wage premium literature (to quantify the gains of the individuals that move into the expanding sector).The results indicate that a sustained export-driven growth in Madagascar's textile and apparel industry will lead to a substantial increase in the income of poor households, with a consequent decrease in poverty. In a scenario simulating five years of expansion of the textile sector, the authors estimate that more than one million individuals will directly or indirectly receive some benefit. On average, households in which one or more members work in the textile sector get an increase in purchasing power of about 24 percent or US $14 a month. The results further show that benefits are unevenly distributed across male and female workers. Households in which a male member is employed in the textile and apparel industry increase their purchasing power by 36 percent or US $24.5 a month, compared with 22 percent or US $12.2 a month in the case of a female worker.This paper - a joint product of Trade, Development Research Group and the Gender Division, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to study the linkages between trade and poverty.