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, of which several turn out significant. In addition to estimates for the total manufacturing sector, we also show results … for three different groups of manufacturing industries characterized by different factor endowments: natural resource …
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This paper provides estimates of price-marginal cost ratios for manufacturing and services sectors in the Eurozone, the …
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This paper provides new evidence for the servitization of European manufacturing – the trend that manufacturing firms … manufacturing industries increased in the large majority of European countries between 1995 and 2005 and between 2000 and 2005 …. Service output of manu-facturing, however, is still small compared to the output of physical products. The highest service …
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In this paper we use both the standard Census of Manufacturing data and new linked information on worker … characteristics for the Finnish manufacturing plants to examine the skilled/unskilled relative demand and its correlation with … database to the plants in the Census of Manufacturing. The employment statistics database is utilised to procure an alternative …
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By combining two sets of survey data - provincial competitiveness index (PCI) from VNCI-VCCI and USAID and annual enterprise census from Vietnam General Statistics Office (GSO) for the period between 2005 and 2011, we estimate the effects of sub-national institutions measured by Provincial...
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This paper aims to explore the potential role of Innovation Intermediaries in the evolution of a traditional cluster toward a service-oriented perspective. In particular, we will highlight the generative function of business models, here as market devices, in stimulating the co- evolution of...
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In this paper, we examine the environmental scanning strategy of manufacturing companies in Southwestern Nigeria … against the background that manufacturing companies in Nigeria exist in a challenging environment characterised by high import … with a questionnaire from a sample of 84 manufacturing firms in Southwestern Nigeria. We found that generally, companies in …
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Why have so few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa been successful in export-oriented manufacturing? This paper uses firm …
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sample of Chinese manufacturing firms in 2004. Through rigorous exercises involving robust regressions, quantile regressions …
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This study examines productivity and profitability of Italian manufacturing corporations in relation to IT usage and …
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