manufacturing

This paper examines internationalisation and employment dynamics in the Finnish manufacturing sector 1980–2001 using plant and industry-level data. According to the results, there is a large heterogeneity in the patterns of international trade and employment
across industries and over time.

This paper aims to describe and explain the spatial evolution of the automobile sector in Great Britain from an evolutionary perspective. This analysis is based on a unique database of all entries and exits in this sector during the period 1895-1968, collected by the authors. Cox regressions show that spinoff dynamics, localization economies and time of entry have had a significant effect on the survival rate of automobile firms during the period 1895-1968.

This paper offers evidence on the connection between total employment and the relative wage earnings of high- and low-skill workers within two-digit manufacturing industries across the states and a collection of metropolitan areas in the U.S. between 1970 and 1990.

This paper quantifies the role of plant relocations in the geographic redistribution of manufacturing employment and examines the effectiveness of state development policy.

This paper presents updated measures of foreign outsourcing for the recent period. Its main findings are that the share of foreign-sourced goods in total manufactured inputs almost doubled – from 12.4% to 22.1%– in U.S. manufacturing between 1987 and 2002.

This paper investigates the effects of exchange rate fluctuations on Turkish manufacturing employment and wages using data for a panel of manufacturing industries over the period 1981-1999.

Using non-parametric linear programming methods, the author measures total productivity growth in industrial manufacturing for 15 major Indian states over the periods 1982-83 to 2000-01.

Based on micro data of 118,300 firms without firm-size thresholds covering all manufacturing industries in Japan, this paper investigates the foreign outsourcing, distinguished explicitly from domestic outsourcing, at the firm level.

The author studies the productivity and technology relatedness of the worlds top manufacturing companies and correlates patent and financial data from international sources for more than 150 multinational companies.

Gov. Edward Rendells blueprint to reverese job loss in the manufacturing sector defines key business finance, workforce and technical support tools for manufacturers to remake themselves. The plan also outlines a number of steps needed to make manufacturing more competitive.