What Explains the International Location of the Clothing Industry?
| dc.contributor.author | Tengstam, Sven | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-02-21T10:23:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-02-21T10:23:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-02-21T10:23:14Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The clothing sector has been a driver of diversification and growth for countries that have graduated into middle income. Using a partial adjustment panel data model, this study tries to explain the international location of clothing production based on a combination of variables suggested by the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and by New Economic Geography theory. Our Blundell-Bond system estimator results show that closeness to intermediates such as low-cost labor and textile production has a positive effect on clothing production. Factor endowment and closeness to the world market have inversed U-shaped effects. This is expected, because above a certain level several other sectors benefit even more from closeness and factor endowments, driving resources away from the clothing industry. | en |
| dc.gup.department | Department of Economics | en |
| dc.gup.origin | University of Gothenburg. School of Business, Economics and Law | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1403-2465 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/9580 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Papers in Economics | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 290 | en |
| dc.subject | Clothing Industry | en |
| dc.subject | New Economic Geography | en |
| dc.subject | Comparative Advantages | en |
| dc.subject | Industrial Agglomeration | en |
| dc.subject | JEL: F12; F13; L13; L67; R12; R3 | en |
| dc.title | What Explains the International Location of the Clothing Industry? | en |
| dc.type | Text | en |
| dc.type.svep | report | en |