Assessing the Competitiveness of the Portuguese Footwear Sector

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This paper aims to find a set of variables that explain the success of Portuguese footwear in a global market. The Portuguese footwear industry is a success story, thanks in no small part to exports. Using micro-level data from the universe of firms in the Portuguese footwear industry from 2004 through 2014, we find that financial health, wages, investments in tangible and intangible assets, labour productivity and diversity and persistence in the firm’s participation in export markets are positively related with a firm’s competitiveness.

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