This paper generalizes the probability method of quantification to the variance facilitating the quantification of business survey data which ask individuals whether or not they are uncertain. In an application to UK manufacturing traditional time-series and cross-sectional measures of uncertainty are then evaluated and the effect of uncertainty on investment considered.
This paper uses firm level data to investigate the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing sector employment in Morocco. This paper extends the existing research in various dimensions. Empirical results indicate that technology, as measured by capital intensity, and the share of new capital matters relatively more than trade in accounting for employment changes.
The specific objective of this paper is to investigate whether the findings that trade expansion caused a decline in female share of U.S. manufacturing employment can be reconciled with the finding that
increased import competition reduced the gender wage discrimination in U.S. manufacturing over the same period.
The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the possible set of factors determining adoption of new technologies such as Advanced Manufacturing Techniques in the Indian auto component industry.
What are the determinants of firm entry and exit in Brazil? How do entry and exit rates affect productivity? This paper tries to answer these questions using panel data for about 104 Brazilian manufacturing sectors (3-digit level) for the period 1996 to 2002. Results show that the share of exports in sectoral output is one main determinant of entry and exit rates.
This report, the first of its kind, provides hard evidence of the tremendous economic strength and the technological vitality of Automation Alley. It documents
the size and scope of Automation Alley’s technology industry, using data on employment, payroll, and establishments in the technology industry that have
never before been assembled.
The paper examines the dependence of firm restructuring on private outside ownership concentration in Czech manufacturing sector after privatization. It starts with the argumentation that the most important actors in the post-privatization ownership structure in the Czech Republic were investment privatization funds, followed by the state, and that the ‘rules of the game’ opened a large space for moral hazard.
Using measures of technology shocks derived from production function estimates for four-digit U.S. manufacturing industries, the author finds that sectoral inflation rates are more responsive to negative, as opposed to positive technology disturbances in periods of higher economy-wide inflation, commodity price increases and expansionary monetary policy shocks.
The share of employment in manufacturing as well as the relative price of manufactures has declined sharply over the postwar period, while the share of manufacturing output relative to GDP has remained roughly constant, according to the authors.
The Georgia Manufacturing Survey (GMS) is a statewide study conducted every 2-3 years by Georgia Tech’s office of Economic Development and Technology Ventures and the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy to assess the business and technological conditions of Georgia’s manufacturers. The theme of GMS 2005 is Innovation in Manufacturing. This summary presents the key findings.