manufacturing

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 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 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.

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 investigates how changes in technology use of individual plants in the Canadian
manufacturing sector are related to two measures of performance—productivity growth and market-share growth. The paper also describes whether plants are adopting new advanced technologies and if they do so, whether they enjoy superior performance in these two areas.

The paper analyzes state level data from the
manufacturing sector in India for the period 1986-87 to 1999-00 to study the efficiency dynamics of a "typical" firm in individual states during the pre- and post reform years. Findings indicate no major change in the efficiency ranking of states after the reforms.

The paper investigates the usefulness of the semi-
parametric spatial vector autoregressive approach proposed by Chen and Conley (JE 2001) in modeling the growth rates of total factor productivity for a large cross-section of U.S. manufacturing industries.

The paper examines the link between structural change between and within industries. The authors analyze the influence of sector specific developments in productivity and demand on net entry and employment in 19 industrial sectors of the Austrian economy.

The study implies that identifying localisation remains
a delicate process, since the right sectorial scale has to be detected case by case, the use of more than one technique usually gives additional insights. The study also confirms that in field studies, a mix of different theoretical models is generally needed to
explain the observed patterns.