Download or read book The Effects of Trade Liberalisation on Australian Manufacturing Industry Productivity Growth written by Satish Chand and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trade Liberalisation and Intra industry Trade written by Clive Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Australian Manufacturing written by Michael Emmery and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trade Liberalisation Exit and Output and Employment Adjustments of Australian Manufacturing Establishments written by Alfons Palangkaraya and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates three potential sources of Australia's manufacturing productivity gains from trade liberalisation in the mid-1990s: the exit of inefficient establishments, economies of scale, and the reduction in x-inefficiency via employment reduction. We use manufacturing establishment level data and exploit the intersectoral variation in the effective rates of assistance (ERA) to see how businesses adjusted to trade liberalisation during the period. We find the documented productivity gains to be mostly accounted for by the reduction in x-inefficiency through employment shedding in industries experiencing a high degree of trade liberalisation. We find little evidence that the exit of inefficient establishments in highly liberalised industries contributes to productivity gains. In fact, we find that the more productive establishments are more likely to exit, perhaps reflecting product switching by these businesses to make more profitable use of inputs. Similarly, there does not appear to be a strong relationship between the extent of trade liberalisation and output adjustments. However, we do find indicative evidence of an overall productivity-enhancing effect through economies of scale. These findings suggest that, at least for the case of Australia, the ease of making employment adjustments can be crucial for policies such as trade liberalisation to have the desired effect. In addition, trade liberalisation may provide incentives for domestic producers to seek more profitable use of their inputs and to move further downward along their cost curves. We think further studies assessing the productivity gains from product switching and economies of scale effects in both liberalised and non-liberalised industries and focusing on the interplay between labour market policy and firm adjustments would be valuable.

Download or read book Restructuring Australian Manufacturing Industry written by Clive T Edward and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1978-01-02 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid growth in exports of manufactures from developing countries has unsettled the performance of manufacturing activities in many developed countries. Asian countries are heavily involved in the export of manufactures. Australia typifies the problems faced by the developed countries. How should Australia respond? Should it attempt to isolate itself from Asia? Or should it attempt to integrate itself with Asia? Is the removal of import restraints a prerequisite for closer integration? Or can closer integration be achieved by alternative approaches which are more politically acceptable? These issues are discussed.

Download or read book Trade Liberalisation and Productivity Growth written by Satish Chand and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Analysis of the Trade and Employment Impact of Accelerated Trade Liberalisation for the Furnishing Manufacturing Industry in Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Political Economy of Manufacturing Protection written by Christopher Findlay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protection is a persistent feature of economic policy in developed and developing countries alike. However, it is now widely accepted that high protection holds back economic growth. Why is protection so pervasive when it is widely recognised to be against the national interest of the countries which impose it? This contradiction is the focus of this important volume, first published in 1986. Economists from the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia have written about their countries and draw conclusions on the causes of protection from statistical analysis and from interindustry structure.

Download or read book Trade Liberalisation written by Godfrey Alfred Rattigan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Horizontal and Vertical Intra industry Trade in Australian Manufacturing written by Kishor Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Australia s Trade Policies written by Richard W. T. Pomfret and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's Trade Policies analyses the evolution and current content of these policies. A historical chapter explains why Australia adopted a policy of protecting manufacturing activities from import competition, and why this strategy was retained after other high-income countries reduced their trade barriers during the 1950s and 1960s. Australia began to change policy in 1973, but embarked on substantial trade liberalisation only in the 1980s. The book analyses the costs of protection and the political economy of policy reform. Individual chapters focus on primary industries, the manufacturing sector and trade in services. Going beyond the normal limits of trade theory. Chapters also deal with capital flows (and multinational enterprises) and the relationship between trade liberalisation and macroeconomic policy.

Download or read book The Changing of Australian Manufacturing written by Colin Clark and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Imperfect Competition Returns to Scale and Productivity Growth in Australian Manufacturing written by Edward Oczkowski and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book International and Regional Specialisation of Australian Manufacturing written by Lennart Ohlsson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pattern and Determinants of Intra Industry Trade in Australian Manufacturing written by Kishor Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents the pattern and determinants of intra-industry trade (IIT) in Australian manufacturing since the late 1970s. The results point to a sharp rise in IIT from the mid 1980s which appears to be linked with an outward-oriented policy. Industry-level analysis indicates that industries which experienced a sharp fall in protection are the industries with the higher levels of IIT. These include textiles, garments, rubber products, and machinery and equipment. An increasing trend in IIT suggests that the short-term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalisation are likely to be lower, and that liberalisation can proceed without huge short-term adjustment costs. Using a logit model the determinants of IIT are investigated. Results indicate that IIT is positively related to product differentiation and scale economies, and negatively related to the levels of protection and foreign ownership in the pre-liberalisation period. In the post-liberalisation period, however, scale economies explain the inter-industry variations in IIT. R&D intensity and close economic integration appear to have no impact on IIT regardless of the nature of the policy regime.

Download or read book Trade Liberalization written by Pauline Santos and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides research on the global policies, benefits and economic risks of trade liberalization. The purpose of the first chapter is to examine the role of agricultural trade in promoting global food security. The second chapter discusses corporate social responsibility, trade liberalization and global welfare. Chapter three sheds light on the role of the state in determining international competitiveness of agricultural commodities and the pattern of agricultural trade. The final chapter of this book studies the impact of trade liberalization on the Australian manufacturing sector.

Download or read book Crisis in the World Trading System written by Committee for Economic Development of Australia and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contribution by CEDA to the Conference of International Counterpart Organisations, Paris, 1-2 December 1993".