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, as a result of successive trade negotiation rounds under the auspices of the GATT/WTO, unilateral trade liberalization …
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The studies summarised in this paper focus on the economic implications of euro area firms’ participation in global value chains (GVCs). They show how, and to what extent, a large set of economic variables and inter-linkages have been affected by international production sharing. The core...
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use four large-scale representative household surveys from the transition economy Vietnam for the period 1998–2006 to …
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Vietnam's development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the … introduction of its doi moi ("renovation") economic reform programme in 1986. The core of Vietnam's economic strategy has been … state-owned enterprises while encouraging growth of the private sector. Following an "East Asian" model, Vietnam has opened …
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The textile and garment industry in Vietnam has achieved fast expansion in terms of production capacity and export … industry has been mainly attributed to the increase of labour and capital rather than economic upgrading. Most of the garment … companies in Vietnam are still participating at the lowest value-added sections of global value chains. This report finds little …
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Participation in the global value chain could lead to different impacts on small and medium firms' performances. In this paper, we examine the relationship between the participation of the Vietnamese economy in the global value chain and small and medium firms' innovation in Viet Nam over the...
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The paper analyzes the link between firm characteristics and labor market regulation in five Asian economies — Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Viet Nam. Labor market policies and labor standards do not only affects workers, but also influence firms' investment and...
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Recent theoretical analysis suggests that a reduction in the cost of exporting increases the degree of assortative matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous impact on matching. We combine detailed Swedish matched...
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We examine the sources and micro-level mechanisms of the changes in the labor share of value added. We link the micro-level dynamics of the labor share change with that of productivity and wage growth. Using a useful variant of the decomposition method we make a distinction between the change in...
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This study analyzes the effects of increased trade with China and Eastern Europe on manufacturing employment in 1,146 NUTS-3 regions of 17 Western European countries from 1991 to 2011. Building on Autor et al. (2013) we aim at identifying the causal effects of an increase in import and export...
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