When the Floodgates Open: 'Northern' Firms' Response to Removal of Trade Quotas on Chinese Goods
Utar H (2013) Working Papers in Economics and Management; 14-2013.
Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics.
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Using the dismantling of the Multi-fibre Arrangement quotas on Chinese textile and clothing
products in conjunction with China's accession to WTO, within firms adjustments to intensified
low-wage competition is analyzed. Employing Danish employer-employee matched data supple-
mented with transaction-level data from between 1995 and 2007, the analysis shows a significant
increase in skill and capital intensity associated with downsizing in response to heightened com-
petition. Competition is found to negatively affect employment, value-added and intangible assets
of the Danish firms, and firms are found to refocus their innovative efforts away from goods where
China's competitive advantage becomes higher. The results show an important role of the distri-
butional impact of low-wage competition within firms in restructuring the industry and support
theories that indicate compositional changes in the scopes and operations of \Northern" firms in
response to competition from \South".
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Worker Characteristics;
Intangibles and Product Churning;
Low-Wage Country Competition;
Within Firm Adjustments;
Denmark;
China;
Multi-fibre Arrangement;
Textile and Clothing Industry
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
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Working Papers in Economics and Management
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14-2013
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2196-2723
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https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2631406
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Utar H. When the Floodgates Open: 'Northern' Firms' Response to Removal of Trade Quotas on Chinese Goods. Working Papers in Economics and Management. Vol 14-2013. Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics; 2013.
Utar, H. (2013). When the Floodgates Open: 'Northern' Firms' Response to Removal of Trade Quotas on Chinese Goods (Working Papers in Economics and Management, 14-2013). Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics. https://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2631406
Utar, Hale. 2013. When the Floodgates Open: 'Northern' Firms' Response to Removal of Trade Quotas on Chinese Goods. Vol. 14-2013. Working Papers in Economics and Management. Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics.
Utar, H. (2013). When the Floodgates Open: 'Northern' Firms' Response to Removal of Trade Quotas on Chinese Goods. Working Papers in Economics and Management, 14-2013, Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics.
Utar, H., 2013. When the Floodgates Open: 'Northern' Firms' Response to Removal of Trade Quotas on Chinese Goods, Working Papers in Economics and Management, no.14-2013, Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics.
H. Utar, When the Floodgates Open: 'Northern' Firms' Response to Removal of Trade Quotas on Chinese Goods, Working Papers in Economics and Management, vol. 14-2013, Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics, 2013.
Utar, H.: When the Floodgates Open: 'Northern' Firms' Response to Removal of Trade Quotas on Chinese Goods. Working Papers in Economics and Management, 14-2013. Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics, Bielefeld (2013).
Utar, Hale. When the Floodgates Open: 'Northern' Firms' Response to Removal of Trade Quotas on Chinese Goods. Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics, 2013. Working Papers in Economics and Management. 14-2013.
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