The study undertakes a quantification of trade barriers for Indian manufacturing industries by examining both the tariff and the non-tariff barriers. It documents the trade barriers for around 72 industries belonging to intermediate, capital and consumer goods sectors between 1980-2000 and the phases of trade reforms therein.
The paper provides a methodologically rigorous description of sectoral location patterns across Western European regions over the 1975-2000 period. Findings indicate that manufacturing has become gradually and statistically significantly more concentrated, although the locational bias towards central regions has become weaker.
The paper develops three arguments. First, the argument about production in a digital age by revisiting the argument that a service economy will follow on a manufacturing economy. Second, putting the emergence of the digital era into an historical context. Third, the place of production in value creation and market position in three different types of sectors.
The paper examines the effect of industrialization on
social capital in Indonesia during 1985 to 1997 using repeated cross- sections of nationally representative surveys. The empirical findings challenge existing results in the social capital literature, and may have implications for social instability in Indonesia since 1997.
The authors explore some basic properties of the size distributions of firms and of their growth processes both at aggregate and disaggregate levels. They also explore the relations between measures of size distributions and the nature of the underlying growth processes and discuss some admittedly unresolved puzzles.
The author identifies the determinants of wages and productivity in Mexico over time using national representative linked employer-employee databases from the manufacturing sector. Findings indicate that both employers and employees are benefiting from investments in education, training, work experience, foreign research and development, and openness after the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The paper studies the Japanese manufacturing industry, and finds that local knowledge spillovers and immobile specialized labor affect regional growth. Thus, while regional demand of
tradable outputs matters less, regional supply of inputs, specially non-tradable inputs, remains critical for manufacturing locations.
The report form the Progressive Policy Institute stresses three steps for the government to take in order to help boost U.S. manufacturing competitiveness. The author contends the Bush administrations economic ideology precludes such steps from taking place.
Important trends, possible trend-breaks, challenges, opportunities and possible visions for the future of manufacturing in Europe are highlighted within the report. Scenarios are illustrated that may offer a glimpse into socio-economic developments and future technologies that are likely to shape the European manufacturing industry.
The white paper by the National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM) suggests that the U.S. can compete successfully with low-wage countries if industry and government rally around two basic goals: increase labor productivity by greatly accelerating the use of advanced technologies; and leverage national resources through a major expansion of public-private partnerships.