Territory, Specialization and Globalization in European Manufacturing Francisco Puig and Helena Marques Q Routledge jj^ Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK Contents List of figures xi List of tables ...

Although traditional manufacturing (textiles, clothing, footwear, furniture, etc) has been in decline in developed countries, it still represents an important part of European employment due to its labour-intensive character. Moreover, its geographical concentration particularly exposes certain...

1. Introduction -- 2. Networks and industrial districts -- 3. Globalization, internationalization strategy and industrial districts -- 4. The textile-clothing industry in Europe : characterization and recent evolution -- 5. Methodology of analysis : an application to the Valencia...

Changes in the costs of trading inputs or final goods affect establishment-level job flows. Using a longitudinal database containing the universe of manufacturing establishments in California from 1992 to 2004, we find that a decline in input or final-good trade costs is associated with job...

We construct a two-sector model -- one producing a homogeneous good and the other producing differentiated goods -- with labor market frictions to study the impact of offshoring on intrafirm, intrasectoral, and intersectoral reallocation of jobs, and on the economy-wide unemployment rate. A...

Changes in the costs of trading inputs or final goods affect establishment-level job flows. Using a longitudinal database containing the universe of manufacturing establishments in California from 1992 to 2004, we find that a decline in input or final-good trade costs is associated with job...

Purpose – To analyse the contribution of firm structure (size, clustering and foreign ownership) and strategy (subsector specialization) to the financial performance Return On Assets [ROA] of almost 10,000 European textile-clothing firms. Methodology/approach – A panel regression analysis is...