Multinational Factoryless Goods Producers and Expansion of Wholesale & Retail Industry in Korea

Jung Hur and Jin Young Yoon ()
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Jin Young Yoon: Department of Economics, Queen’s University, Canada

No 2107, Working Papers from Nam Duck-Woo Economic Research Institute, Sogang University (Former Research Institute for Market Economy)

Abstract: This paper studies a role of Multinational Factoryless Goods Producers (MFGPs) on the recent expansion of the wholesale and retail industries in Korea. We empirically investigate the impacts of industry-level store entry rate of the MFGPs on labor productivity growth and storeentry and exit probabilities of Non-MFGPs which are the majority of firms in the industries. Our main results are as follows. First, the industry-level store entry rates of MFGPs are positively associated with increases in labor productivity growth of Non-MFGPs. Second, the industry-level store entry rates of MFGPs are positively related to store-entry decision of Non-MFGPs. These findings may imply that the entries of MFGP-stores contribute to the growth and expansion of the wholesale and retail industries as a whole.

Keywords: Multinational Factoryless Goods Producers, Wholesale and retail industries; Labor Productivity; Store Entry and Exit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 L81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2021
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