According to the report, the manufacturing sector in Indiana accounts for 68 percent of the jobs in the state and provides about 37 percent of all state and local taxes. The Indiana Manufacutures Association hopes the new data will lead to new policies that promote manufacturing investment in the state.
This paper examines the interaction between services and manufacturing using several types of data and shows that the distinction between manufacturing and services is blurring. Services make important contributions to production, mainly through their direct contribution to total output and final demand, but to some degree also through their indirect contribution via other industries.
This paper uses data on the manufacturing sector, for the period 1966-2002 and estimates a CES production function in which military spending is assumed to effect growth through its impact on trend technological change.
According to the authors, the standard quadratic price adjustment cost function makes no allowance for firm
size or for scale economies. Incorporating quadratic price adjustment costs into the profit function, a firm’s speed of price adjustment is both shown to be a
positive/negative function of its size when firms have scale economies/diseconomies with regard to these costs and to be a negative function of market power.
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.