Isao Kamata

This study addresses the question of whether labor clauses in RTAs are effective to prevent the domestic labor standards in RTA signatory countries from deterioration. Empirical analyses are conducted for two measures of labor standards: statutory minimum wages and the strictness of employment protection. The impacts of RTAs with and without labor clauses and the importance of

This study empirically analyzes whether labor clauses in RTAs are effective to prevent the domestic labor standards in RTA signatories from deterioration, using two labor-standard measures: statutory minimum wages and the strictness of employment protection. The results show that signing RTAs with more trading partners are associated with lower statutory minimum wages only when

This study empirically analyzes whether labor clauses in RTAs are effective to prevent the domestic labor standards in RTA signatories from deterioration, using two labor-standard measures: statutory minimum wages and the strictness of employment protection. The results show that signing RTAs with more trading partners are associated with lower statutory minimum wages only when

This study addresses the question of whether labor clauses in RTAs are effective to prevent the domestic labor standards in RTA signatory countries from deterioration. Empirical analyses are conducted for two measures of labor standards: statutory minimum wages and the strictness of employment protection. The impacts of RTAs with and without labor clauses and the importance of

This study examines the role of management practices in the internationalization of domestic firms through directly exporting and/or supplying to local affiliates of multinationals. An original survey of manufacturing firms in Vietnam was conducted, investigating their management practices such as human resource management and internationalization status. The survey results she

This study examines the role of management practices in the internationalisation of domestic firms through directly exporting and/or supplying to local affiliates of multinationals. An original survey of manufacturing firms in Viet Nam was conducted, investigating their management practices such as human resource management and internationalisation status. The survey results sh

This study examines the role of management practices in the internationalisation of domestic firms through directly exporting and/or supplying to local affiliates of multinationals. An original survey of manufacturing firms in Viet Nam was conducted, investigating their management practices such as human resource management and internationalisation status. The survey results sh

The presentation provides an overview of the relationship between internationalization and productivity of firms in which human-resource management practices play an important role as a key determinant of firms’ productivity. The presentation also discusses some of the potential benefits from firms’ participation in global value chains (GVCs) that would accrue to local workers,

The presentation provides an overview on the relationship between firms’ productivity, internationalization, and management practices. The presentation points out that internationalized firms tend to have productivity advantages over un-internationalized firms, which likely result from self-selecting characteristics of internationalized firms and/or the experience and informati

TPPを始めとする近年の自由貿易協定には労働基準や労働環境に関する規定がしばしば盛り込まれる。ここではその機能や有効性について考える。また、政策協調の必要性についても議論する。

The talk is bout my research that investigates the interactive roles of firm-level productivity and a country’s factor-proportion-based comparative advantage in the selection of exporting firms. It is broadly understood today that only a group of the most productive firms within an industry will be self-selected to be exporters in response to trade liberalization. My research s

The paper performs an empirical analysis for the effects of “labor clauses” in regional trade agreements (RTAs) on actual working conditions in the signatory countries. The paper first examines the labor provisions in 223 RTAs by reviewing their texts and defines “RTAs with labor clauses” according to whether the agreement (i) urges the signatories to harmonize their domestic l

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The paper performs an empirical analysis for the effects of “labor clauses” in regional trade agreements (RTAs) on actual working conditions in the signatory countries. The paper first examines the labor provisions in 223 RTAs by reviewing their texts and defines “RTAs with labor clauses” according to whether the agreement (i) urges the signatories to harmonize their domestic l

This presentation provides a view on within-ASEAN trade with the region's trade liberalization through the AEC, from the perspective of the heterogeneous-firm trade theory and comparative advantage.