Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains

Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas

Eingang zum Volltext

Marczak, Martyna ; Beissinger, Thomas

Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains

Bitte beziehen Sie sich beim Zitieren dieses Dokumentes immer auf folgende
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-14881
URL: http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/volltexte/2018/1488/

pdf-Format:

Dokument 1.pdf (766 KB)

Gedruckte Ausgabe:

Print-on-Demand-Kopie

Dokument in Google Scholar suchen:

Social Media:

Export:

Abrufstatistik:

SWD-Schlagwörter:

Lohnstückkosten , Supply Chain Management , Wettbewerbsverhalten

Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch):

unit labor costs , real effective exchange rate , global supply chains , input- output analysis , sectoral analysis , WIOD

Institut:

Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre

DDC-Sachgruppe:

Wirtschaft

Dokumentart:

ResearchPaper

Schriftenreihe:

Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences

Bandnummer:

2018,12

Sprache:

Englisch

Erstellungsjahr:

2018

Publikationsdatum:

08.05.2018

Lizenz:

Veröffentlichungsvertrag mit der Universitätsbibliothek Hohenheim

Kurzfassung auf Englisch:

We propose the so-called domestic “embodied unit labor costs” (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector’s labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent consist of expenses for inter- mediate goods from other sectors. In line with a simple Leontief-type model, the proposed measure is constructed as a weighted average of unit labor costs of all do- mestic sectors contributing to the final goods of a specific sector. The contribution is expressed in value-added terms and takes global supply chains into account. We also show how EULC can be consistently calculated for sectoral aggregates such as the tradable goods sector. Based on EULC we propose the “embodied real effec- tive exchange rate” (EREER) at the country-sector level as a new competitiveness indicator where the relevance of trading partners is quantified by an appropriate value-added measure. The chosen value-added concept replaces gross exports tra- ditionally used as the weight basis in effective exchange rates. Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) we employ the proposed indicators to shed new light on changes in cost competitiveness at the sectoral level for Germany, and compare the empirical evidence with selected other euro area countries.