investigate evidence of IRS at the industry level. Using an econometric approach based on the estimation of the translog cost …. The model accounting for technology did not fit the data well for most sectors. The estimation results without time trend …

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant … using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take … horizontal or vertical. We also find robust positive employment growth effects only for exporters, and only if the takeover is …

employment growth in manufacturing plants has been drastically reduced during the economic crisis. More importantly, we do not …This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate …

-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment …

the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back …

This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment decline on the socio-economic outcomes within and between … manufacturing decline negatively impacted blacks (men, women, and children) in terms of their wages, employment, marriage rates …-share" instrument for the local manufacturing employment share. Overall, the decline in manufacturing is reducing socio …

administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …

Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … labour-augmenting effect, increasing total manufacturing employment. The two-equation dynamic framework implemented to …There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed …

We study differences in the adjustment of aggregate real wages in the manufacturing sector over the business cycle … positive correlation between the cyclicality of real wages and employment, suggesting that policy complementarities may …