We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may havecontributed to increasing inequality in …, high income inequality playeda large role. This is because manufacturing job loss typically implies a move to the …

The notable rebound of U.S. manufacturing activity following the Great Recession has raised the question of whether the … labor costs have had a positive impact on U.S. manufacturing production. While we find it unlikely for manufacturing to … become a main engine of growth in the United States, we find that U.S. manufacturing exports could provide nonnegligible …

rate, external and domestic demand, and structural changes on firms' profitability in Colombia's manufacturing sector … imported inputs as Colombian manufacturing firms become more domestically oriented. At the same time, some structural changes … weak performance of Colombia's manufacturing sector in recent years. This paper examines the effects of the real exchange …

manufacturing sectors across 64 countries. A robust finding is that bureaucratic and costly entry regulations tend to hamper … exerting a positive effect on competition. These results suggest that incumbent firms are likely to enjoy the rent and market …

Nonviable 'zombie' firms have become a key concern in China. Using novel firm-level industrial survey data, this paper … vulnerabilities and low productivity. As a group, zombie firms and SOEs account for an outsized share of corporate debt, contribute to … much of the rise in debt, and face weak fundamentals. Empirical results also show that resolving these weak firms can …

. At middle incomes energy and income move in lockstep. The decline in the manufacturing share of value added, globally … manufacturing sector has reduced (increased) US (China) energy demand by 4.1 (10.7) percent between 1990 and 2017 …

from different countries. We investigate the validity of this assumption by estimating manufacturing export equations for …