Does WTO accession matter for the Chinese textile and clothing industry?

Yeung, Godfrey; Mok, Vincent

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“…However, special safeguard mechanisms against Chinese textile imports remained in effect until 31 December 2008. These mechanisms allowed quotas to be reimposed if Chinese textile exports were believed to have harmed the market of the importing country (Harrigan & Barrows, 2009;Yeung & Mok, 2004). In the face of the huge increase in Chinese textile imports which occurred, some temporary quantity 4 See Khandelwal (2010) for the development of this methodology.…”

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Quantity restrictions and price adjustment of Chinese Textile Exports to the US

2017

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The elimination of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 provides an unusual opportunity to examine the effects of a trade policy shock on export prices and firm behaviour. It was massive in scale, discrete in timing and exogenous to firms and consumers in the textile industry. Since the MFA quota removal did not affect all textile products at the same time, we are able to use a difference‐in‐difference approach to estimate the causal effects of the MFA. Using transaction‐level data from the Chinese Customs Trade Statistics over the period 2000–06, we find that the MFA removal reduced average export prices by about 25%. This fall was mainly caused by a combination of the entry of new low‐price exporters and new low‐price products, rather than a fall in prices of existing firm–product combinations. We also find that price reductions are twice as large for heterogeneous than for homogeneous products.

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Quantity restrictions and price adjustment of Chinese Textile Exports to the US

2017

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“…Women workers in particular were called upon to return home to open up more job opportunities for men. 26 Godfrey Yeung and Vincent Mok (2004) argue that whether the reduction of Chinese import tariffs and export quotas would benefit the industry still depends upon the size and ownership types of firms. Hence, the textiles and clothing industries are not necessarily the winners because of China's entry into WTO, as the state media would have us believe.…”

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Gender dynamics and redundancy in urban China

Liu

2007

Feminist Economics

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This paper focuses on employment narratives recounted in life history interviews with women workers in Nanjing, China. Drawing on feminist perspectives on gender and global economic changes, it examines the micro-processes that underpinned China's economic restructuring and, through a gender-based analysis, shows how working women lost out in this process. After an overview of the institutional context in which China's economic restructuring occurred, this paper examines women's experiences in the workplace and identifies factors that contributed to their disadvantageous position in the work unit and that increased their vulnerability in the changing labor market. The evidence of gender inequality, assumptions about women's labor capacities, and the gendered consequences of economic restructuring suggest that older, less educated women workers, mostly from the Cultural Revolution generation, are unlikely to gain any benefit from whatever advantages accrue from China's economic integration into the global economy.China, state sector reform, unemployment, gender, qualitative research, JEL Codes: P31, J64, J7,

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“…Over the last two decades, the sector restructured and modernized its production, resulting in a large number of firm exits in the industry and a reduction of the industry's workforce by more than 40 % in Europe and approximately 30 % in the USA. In addition, the Asian textile and clothing industry was restructuring and making considerable adjustments to reduce employment, return to profitability, decrease the number of firms, and increase efficiency (Yeung and Mok 2004). Although the trends of decreasing employment and number of firms are expected to continue in the international textile and clothing industry, the industry remains a relatively important sector of the economies of many developed and developing countries.…”

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An international comparison of productivity change in the textile and clothing industry: a bootstrapped Malmquist index approach

Kapelko

2014

Empir Econ

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Firms in the textile and clothing industry operate in competitive international markets characterized by the liberalized trade after the removal of multi-fiber agreement quotas in 2005, and have to address rapid changes in consumer preferences and production technology. Hence, improving competitiveness is crucial for firm survival. Competitiveness of the sector often depends on its firms meeting their production potential. This paper analyzes productivity changes in the textile and clothing industry worldwide during the period 1995-2004. A bootstrapped Malmquist approach is used to identify the respective contributions of technical change, technical efficiency change, and scale efficiency change. Moreover, differences in productivity changes across different groups of firms are statistically assessed. Our results show a relatively small overall productivity increase for both textile and clothing firms due to positive technical change, despite declines in technical and scale efficiency. Furthermore, our results indicate that productivity and its components differ for textile firms and clothing firms, for firms in countries that benefited and did not benefit from the quotas' elimination, and for firms in different regions.

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Does WTO accession matter for the Chinese textile and clothing industry?

Abstract: Abstract:Based on field surveys conducted in Guangdong, Zhejiang

Cited by 23 publications

References 26 publications

Quantity restrictions and price adjustment of Chinese Textile Exports to the US

Quantity restrictions and price adjustment of Chinese Textile Exports to the US

Gender dynamics and redundancy in urban China

An international comparison of productivity change in the textile and clothing industry: a bootstrapped Malmquist index approach

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