Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The … paper documents this finding for 4-digit manufacturing sectors for a large group of developed and developing countries over … parts of manufacturing …

empirical analysis of the impacts of heat on total factor productivity in U.S manufacturing yields findings broadly consistent …

markets. In this paper we use micro panel data for producers in seven two-digit manufacturing industries in South Korea and …

We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector …

slowdown. Complementarity across occupations and industries in production shrinks the relative size of those with high …

The manufacturing sector in Taiwan has a market structure composed of large numbers of small firms, a focus on less … argued that these features lower the start-up costs of new manufacturing firms. Recent theoretical models of market evolution …. We find notable differences in productivity across manufacturing firms that are reflected in turnover patterns in both …

firm was estimated using an unbalanced panel data of 4,484 Brazilian manufacturing firms from 1986 to 1998, following the … inclusion of this new variable reduces the size of the estimated coefficient of nominal tariffs. Thus, it seems that, along with …