This paper examines the extents and determinants of intra-industry textile and clothing trade for the OECD countries. Trade overlap is used as the measurement of intra-industry trade (IIT). The general trend of intra-OECD trade and the extents of IIT for textile and clothing trade in year 2000 were examined. Hypotheses relating to 5 country-specific variables tested showed strong significance r...

Empirical intra-industry trade has a history that began in the mid-1960s. As with most empirical exercises, it has been wrought with criticism and defenses that have molded the work that is done on intra-industry trade today. This paper brings together the various measures and econometric studies on intra-industry trade. A complete review of the literature is beyond the scope of this paper, but...

We re-examine the relationship between intra-industry trade and labour reallocation, using individual-level data on manufacturing worker moves in the United Kingdom. The contribution of this analysis is twofold. First, we estimate the impact of intra-industry trade on worker moves between occupations as well as between industries. Second, we run individual-level regressions that allow us to con...

This paper investigates the determinants of Spanish vertical intra-industry trade with a large sample of countries. We empirically test the comparative advantage explanation. To this aim, we build physical, human and technological capital stocks. On average, that is using OLS techniques, differences in endowments are a limitation for vertical intra-industry trade. Using quantile regressions tec...

Previous theoretical contributions on endogenous tariff formation have focused on trade models with homogeneous goods and constant returns to scale. This paper investigates the political equilibrium of trade policy when economic structure is instead characterized by differentiated products and increasing returns to scale and there exists intra-industry trade. The result shows that endogenous ta...

The simultaneous exports and imports of a product within country or a particular industry called intra-industry trade (IIT) or two-way trade. In the recent years, the government of Pakistan had realized factors to liberalize the international trade. The literature of international economics demonstrates that this condition (trade liberalization) induces the IIT. The case study for Pakistan has ...

Within the framework of an n-commodity, n-factor, K-country loglinear model with identical Cobb–Douglas production coefficients and identical consumer-expenditure shares across countries, balanced trade, and a pattern of world endowments permitting positive outputs of all commodities in each country, it is shown that, given any mode of aggregating the n commodities into at most n − 1 industrial...

According to the “smooth adjustment hypothesis”, the labour-market adjustment costs entailed by trade liberalisation are lower if trade expansion is intra-industry rather than interindustry in nature. In this paper, we study the link between trade and labour market changes in UK manufacturing industries during the 1980s. We use industry-level measures of unemployment duration and wage variabili...

This paper analyses the scope for collusive behaviour within the context of an international duopoly supergame in which both firms and monopoly labour unions interact strategically. We find that the presence of unions, implying an endogenisation of production costs, dramatically alters the incentives for inter-firm collusion. There are, however, strong incentives for the unions to collude, rais...

The purpose of this article is to investigate the impact of marginal intra-industry trade on economic growth. The results indicate that economic growth is a dynamic process. The change of intra-industry has a positive impact on economic growth. This paper confirms relevant theoretical hypothesis as foreign direct investment and globalization promote the economic growth.