This paper analyses the aerospace industry through the lens of global value chains, linking a country position in the chain to the strength of its innovation system. The analysis covers the years 2007-2018 for 38 countries. The participation of countries to different stages of the GVC is proxied...

We study how technology adoption and changes in global value chain (GVC) integration jointly affect labor shares and business function specialization in a sample of 14 manufacturing industries in 14 European countries in 1999–2011. Our main contribution is to highlight the indirect effect of...