Revealed comparative advantage and competitiveness of clothing sector: Balkan countries vis-à-vis the EU-28

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10.2991/febm-17.2017.72How to use a DOI?

Keywords

competitiveness; comparative advantage; clothing industry; gross value; wages

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of Balkans countries' relative competitiveness of the clothing industry and a comparison its trade vis-à-vis the EU-28. The RCA is analysed by two indices: the Balassa index and the Vollrath's revealed competitiveness during 2000–2015. Both evaluations of the RCA indices revealed the same findings that revealed comparative advantage for the clothing industry is decreasing for all countries in the Balkans. The main factors which influence the level of competitiveness of clothing products from the Balkans are the gross value added per employee and wages.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Simona Tripa
AU  - Sunhilde Cuc
AU  - Liliana Indrie
AU  - Hajnalka Barna
AU  - Simona Dzitac
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - Revealed comparative advantage and competitiveness of clothing sector: Balkan countries vis-à-vis the EU-28
BT  - Proceedings of the Second International Conference On Economic and Business Management (FEBM 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 533
EP  - 539
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/febm-17.2017.72
DO  - 10.2991/febm-17.2017.72
ID  - Tripa2017/10
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