manufacturing

This report profiles major changes in national manufacturing in recent years. This report also looks at Iowa and its bordering states in order to discern just how the state has fared compared to the U.S. and its neighbors. In addition, comparisons are made of Iowas manufacturing job performance in relation to the average for all states that border Iowa.

This paper studies whether intra-developing country price competition has significant effects on the growth rates of developing countries that are specialized in manufactured exports. Results vary across different panels of countries and between the first and second halves of the sample period.

This paper examines head office employment in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It focuses on the characteristics that are related to the creation of a head office and the amount of employment in that head office. Among the characteristics investigated are firm size, number of plants, industrial diversity, geographical location, industry and nationality.

This paper uses firm-level data from the T2/LEAP to investigate whether the link between tariff changes and employment differed across firms with various productivity and leverage characteristics over the period 1988 to 1994. The results suggest that the combined effect of domestic and U.S. tariff reductions on employment was typically small, but that losses were significantly larger for firms which were less productive.

Manufacturing is often seen as a potential source of growth for rural areas, according to the authors. This
paper examines the influence that agglomeration, labor, input supply, infrastructure, and government fiscal attributes have on manufacturing investment flows in Indiana between 2000 and 2004.

This paper tries to construct an estimable model of linkage effects among industries as well as agglomeration economies, and to estimate these effects separately within a framework of the Translog production function. The empirical analysis is based on two-digit data for manufacturing industries in Japanese cities.

This paper is focused on the evolution of trade competitiveness of the manufacturing sector in Italy over the past ten years and addresses to the role played by localised comparative advantages in shaping the model of national competitiveness.

This paper examines the role that agglomeration economies play as location determinants in manufacturing foreign direct investment, with special emphasis on inter-industry heterogeneity. The analysis reveals that agglomeration economies are significant determinants of the regional distribution of manufacturing FDI, and that the nature and importance of locational determinants vary according to the specific needs of each industry.

This paper investigates the changing geographical pattern of manufacturing industries in Japan in the 1990s and explores factors of their geographical concentration. The authors utilize an estimation of the geographical concentration of manufacturing industries using the coefficient of localization based on manufacturing employment and establishment data at the prefecture level.

This study analyses the complex relationship between manufacturing FDI and trade in services. An examination of how recent developments in the economic landscape have resulted in changes in the industrial organisation as well the structure of multinational enterprises is presented.