The authors examine the dimensions of China’s competitive threat in the 1990s, benchmarking competitive performance by technology and market, and finds that market share losses are so far mainly in low technology products, with Japan being the most vulnerable market. They analyse market share changes and highlight product groups that are directly or indirectly exposed to a competitive threat.
Using entropy indices and associated bootstrap tests, the authors describe the distribution of economic sectors across Western European regions over the 1975-2000 period. It is found that manufacturing has become gradually more concentrated, although the locational bias towards central regions has become weaker.
This paper aims at exploring and analysing the trade-location relationship in candidate countries during the 1990s. Two empirical evidences are provided: current trends in spatial organisation of manufacturing production and the role played by the economic integration process with
the EU in partially or totally shaping such patterns.
This paper examines the relationship between agglomeration economies and regional productivity in the manufacturing sector in Finland. The results find in favour of regional specialisation more than diversification even if some differences can be seen between the manufacturing sub-sectors.
The paper analyses micro-level data from the U.S. and European semiconductor manufacturers. In particular, the authors focus on the plants undertaking the wafer manufacturing processes.
The paper analyses micro-level data from the U.S. and European semiconductor manufacturers. In particular, the authors focus on the plants undertaking the wafer manufacturing processes.
In this paper, the author takes a sensible approach to revitalizing American manufacturing by focusing on overcoming inefficiencies in the development of manufacturing. He states that this approach to revitalizing manufacturing can best be implemented through federal efforts to encourage and support state and local economic development policies that help enhance manufacturing productivity.
The objectives of this report are to examine the characteristics of manufacturing in Atlantic Canada and to shed light on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined, including innovative activity, capital intensity, quality of human resources, economies of scale and the seasonality of production.
The purpose of the paper is to revisit the productivity gap in manufacturing between between the United Kingdom and other industrialized countries over the period 1970-1998. The results indicate
The paper identifies and explains patterns of regional specialization and manufacturing concentration in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia. The authors find that
patterns of manufacturing relocation are country-specific.