This paper examines globalization, industrialization, and labor markets in Indonesia using a case study of manufacturing. It attempts to answer the question of how changes in the labor market after the 1997-1998 Asian Financial Crisis affected industrialization and labor market performance. The...

This paper examines the effects of human capital on SMEs' participation in global value chains using Indonesian firm-level data. The paper adopts the discrete choice modeling of the probit framework to examine the behavior of firms in the export market. In particular, it examines SME behavior in...

Trade and investment liberalization has been one of the key features of economic policy in many developing countries since the 1990s. Research on this subject has consistently produced more evidence on the benefits of globalization; theoretical studies give more attention to what happens within...

"This book examines driving factors and the effects of globalisation on economic development through firm and product level data. The book is organised into four themes i.e. productivity, innovation, wage and income gap, and within-firm reallocation of resources. The comprehensiveness and...

Economists have long recognized the gains from international trade. The question is, does international trade - or more broadly, globalization - increase growth? Notwithstanding the debates, there are still many questions, old and new, need to be explored in order to improve our understanding on...

1. Introduction / Chin Hee Hahn, Shujiro Urata and Dionisius Narjoko -- 2. Learning-by-exporting and plant characteristics / Chin Hee Hahn and Chang-Gyun Park -- 3. Exporting, productivity and innovation in Malaysian manufacturing / Cassey Lee -- 4. Does trade protection improve firm...