In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs … manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct time periods of industrialization since 1990, and explain the nature of I4 … could do more to promote entrepreneurship; to diversify and grow manufacturing export markets through focused trade …

variety, technological innovation is changing the nature of manufacturing and is turning services into the main sector for …This paper shows that African economies have generally not de-industrialized, that manufacturing growth is very … possible, and moreover that the contribution of manufacturing in Africa has been underestimated. As far as the future is …

.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure …Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector … emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U …

unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of …, including the innovative part of manufacturing, are only influenced by changes in the cyclical component of unemployment, while …

various dimensions of upgrading - learning, quality upgrading, technology adoption, and product innovation. The second part …

This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to … fixed enterprise effects that controls for firm size, industry, and unobservable firm heterogeneity we see that the premia …-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …

activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from …

the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …

impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita in more … trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import competition implies a … reduction in the manufacturing employment-population ratio of 1.54 percentage points, which is 55% of the observed change in the …

Does higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity? Exploiting plausibly exogenous … manufacturing enterprise employment in India. This formal share increase is both due to the rise in formal-enterprise employment … formal firms' hiring of contract workers, who do not carry stringent string costs. Overall, Chinese import competition …