manufacturing

The author demonstrates how a statistical test proposed by Banker (1993) may be applied to test the validity of a specific way of aggregating several inputs. An empirical application using data from Indian manufacturing for the year 2002-03 is included as an example of the proposed test.

This program summary provides background information, program goals and statistics of the Regional Technology Development Centers. The purpose of the centers are to cultivate the growth of high-tech industry and help smaller manufacturers modernize.

In the early 1990s the World Bank launched the Regional Program on Enterprise Development in several African countries, a key component of which was the collection of manufacturing firm-level data. In this paper the authors review the research based on the data sets generated by these and subsequent firm surveys in Africa, with a special view to what they think are the most important policy implications.

This study examines the determinants of the price-cost margins in the Turkish manufacturing industry spanning from 1995 to 2003. Utilizing panel data econometric techniques on a large number of manufacturing firms by conditioning on their firm size, age, ownership and
export orientation, the study finds that there exists a marked difference among the firms’ pricing behaviors according to their market share.

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.