manufacturing

According to the author, the sharp divergence in the 2001 recession between two key economic indicators--manufacturing production and goods output--could suggest that one indicator is flawed, casting doubt on the reliability of its overall series. The analysis finds no evidence of error. Rather, the strength of spending on consumer--relative to capital--goods and the growth of merchandising services in the sale of consumer goods more likely explain the recent deviation.

The paper briefly describes the major reforms to Australian trade policy over the last 30 years and then explores whether these reforms have increased manufactured exports across 141 manufacturing branches over the period 1989/90 to 2000/01. The authors find that the declining level of protection over this period is associated with increased exports.

The paper documents differences in the levels and growth rates of manufactured exports across the Australian states and territories over the period 1989/90 - 2000/01 and then re-interprets these differences using shift-share analysis. Results suggest that the relative changes in state exports of manufactured goods have been substantial and seem in large part due to state specific characteristics that impact on state competitiveness.

The paper examines research and development (R&D) spillovers at the international level, looking at such spillovers from Japan to Korea. Empirical findings show that the contribution of inter-industry R&D spillovers in the Korean manufacturing sector is low and insignificant, while Korean manufacturing industry benefits greatly from rent R&D spillovers from Japanese manufacturing industry.

The study examines the relationship between rising
manufacturing employment and school enrollment in Indonesia from 1985 to 1995, a time of rapid industrialization. Overall, enrollment is slightly higher
and youth labor force participation slightly lower in regions with more manufacturing.

The paper examines research and development (R&D) spillovers at the international level, looking at such spillovers from Japan to Korea. Empirical findings show that the contribution of inter-industry R&D spillovers in the Korean manufacturing sector is low and insignificant, while Korean manufacturing industry benefits greatly from rent R&D spillovers from Japanese manufacturing industry.

The objective of this paper is to identify the determinants of the decision to innovate in Taiwan. Three innovation strategies are considered : doing research and development only, importing technology only, and combining both.

The paper separates and analyzes three distinct mechanisms behind trade-induced productivity change at the level of firms: competitive push, foreign input push, and competitive elimination. The author then evaluates their overall importance for productivity change in Brazilian manufacturing during the years 1986-98.

The paper discusses several questions related to the economic cycles, from the scientific methodological approach to isolate the economic cycles, to an empirical application using data of the Portuguese industrial sector, passing by the identification of the real economic cycles that modulated the productive activity during almost the last 5 decades of the 20th century, and by its rationality.

The paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997. A cross-country decomposition analysis reveals that in some countries structural changes contributed considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements.