Using firm-level data from France, we document that the shift of economic activity from manufacturing to services over … manufacturing firms that increasingly locate in suburban and rural areas. Motivated by these findings, we estimate a structural … strengthened for services but weakened for manufacturing. This divergence is a key driver of the urban bias but it dampens …

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector …

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …&D spillovers as well as remainder, input-output-related linkage effects are accounted for, the latter of which we model by a …

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U …