The paper investigates different implications of theoretical models for hierarchical structure. A sample of 6567 firms in the Brazilian manufacturing industry is considered and explanatory factors pertaining structural characteristics, network technology, technological innovations, managerial innovations and incentive mechanisms are investigated.
This study focuses on industrial concentration and regional specialization in Finland in the late 1990s. Results show increasing specialization and at least for some industries in-creased geographical concentration. Thus, there was no single process driving all industries in the same direction.
This paper builds a model of growth through industrialization, as machines replace workers in a growing number of tasks. The model shows that industrialization and growth take off only if the economy is productive enough. It also shows that monopoly power can stifle growth, as it lowers wages.
According to the register, there were 12,532 companies considered as having manufacturing operations in the state on Dec. 31. The state lost 3,355 manufacturing jobs during 2005 to 696,362 on Dec. 31, the regiser indicates.
While the emphasis on services rather than manufacturing has been widely noted, within manufacturing India has emphasized skill-intensive rather than labor-intensive manufacturing, and industries with typically higher average scale, according to the authors. They show that some of these distinctive patterns existed even prior to the beginning of economic reforms in the 1980s, and argue they stem from the idiosyncratic policies adopted soon after Indias independence.
The report, written primarily for policymakers who may not appreciate the contributions and challenges faced by small and medium manufacturers (SMM) in their own states, reveals two important trends in SMMs. The report also identifies 15 best practices that are followed by successful SMMs.
This Economic Commentary focuses on the extent to which strong productivity growth in detailed manufacturing industries is associated with weak employment growth, and thus with generally weaker employment growth compared to the service sector.
The authors test for the presence of externalities in UK manufacturing industry, seeking to identify the channels through which they operate. Using survey data on average variable cost available by industry, they estimate a translog cost function, storing the coefficients on time dummies for a second stage regression in which measures of external activity are entered to capture omitted spillover effects.
In a new economic geography framework with input-output linkages, this study analyses decisions made by foreign firms about their location within Hungary. A rich dataset of corporate tax returns of Hungarian firms between 1992 and 2002 as well as annual labor surveys are used to get location, sales and wage data.
The major objective of the study is to complement the findings of the studies on industrial agglomeration in Turkey’s manufacturing industry by exploring whether specialization and concentration patterns have changed over time and to expose the driving forces of geographic concentration in Turkey’s manufacturing industry, particularly during Turkey’s economic integration process with the European Union under the customs union established in 1996.