This paper investigates the motivations for, and implications of, the Automobile Industry code under the National … introductions and the annual automobile show as a means of regularizing employment in the industry. After documenting key features … of the automobile industry during the 1920s and 1930s and outlining the provisions of the automobile code, we analyze two …

gender trends and the evolution of the industry structure. Based on a shift-share decomposition, it shows that the growth in …

determination at the industry-city level. In particular, we use US Census data over the years 1970 to 2000 to quantify the … relationship between changes in industry-specific city-level wages and changes in industrial composition. Our finding is that the …

effects of a change in an industry's structure, we undertake a hypothetical merger exercise. Our calculations indicate …

Does national market size matter for industrial structure? This has been suggested by theoretical work on home market … industrial structure …

What factors determine national differences in the size and industry distribution of employment? We stress the role of … these policies affect outcomes. Taking the U.S. industry distribution as a benchmark that reflects a comparatively neutral … differences in industry and size structures and their evolution over time. As an example, the tax reform wave of the 1980s which …

been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced ….S. export comparative advantage, far from the previous patterns of the host countries. The industry distribution of Japanese … orientation and industry composition. Their early concentration in textiles and apparel faded and they are more heavily …

) sectoral structure; (iv) similarity in export and import baskets; (v) factor endowments; and (vi) gravity variables. We find … industrial structure and currency unions are found not to be robust …