Restructuring of the international clothing and textile trade network: The role of Italy and Portugal

Artikel

Since the 1990s, the clothing and textile (C&T)-industry has been tremendously affected by changes in technology, trade costs, and the institutional environment. This paper studies the restructuring of C&T-trade from the perspective of Europe's two most prominent C&T-goods producing countries-Italy and Portugal. We explore these two countries' situation in a global context and concentrate our analysis to two distinct economic variables, C&T-value added and C&T-labor. Moreover, we contribute to the existing literature by distinguishing between domestically and internationally traded C&T-goods as well as between trade in intermediate and final demand C&T-goods, which enables us to give a more full-fledged picture on restructuring of C&T-trade. We show that international C&T-production became more concentrated between 1995 and 2009. In a further step, we investigate changes with regard to import penetration of C&T-trade, international outsourcing, the distance to final demand for C&T-goods, and another range of country-specific trade patterns. Our main findings reveal that Italy was more oriented toward C&T-production activities which generate high value added, whereas Portugal was less productive and relatively more specialized into the production of labor-intensive C&T-goods. Thus, Portugal was more prone to the rising international pressure from low-wage countries, whereas in Italy restructuring of C&Ttrade had comparatively less severe effects.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Journal of Economic Structures ; ISSN: 2193-2409 ; Volume: 5 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 16 ; Pages: 1-29 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Input-Output Models ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
• Thema: Restructuring ; Clothing and textile industry ; International trade network ; Trade of intermediate and final demand C&T-goods ; Directly embodied C&T-value added and -labor ; Italy and Portugal

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Schütz, Marlies Hanna ; Palan, Nicole
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Springer
• (wo): Heidelberg
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1186/s40008-016-0046-7
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/147234
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ