In the OECD countries, the decline of manufacturing and its employment implications have long been matters of concern …

In this paper we study the capital adjustment process in Swedish manufacturing firms and relate the empirical findings …

The manufacturing industry in industrialised countries is often argued to servicify - use and sell more services - but … group level for Sweden (1997-2006). We find that manufacturing is servicifying substantially. Services and qualified … services are increasingly characterising in-house activity in manufacturing. The results imply that treat-ing services and …

Several studies have highlighted that African manufacturing wages are higher than comparator countries at similar … levels of development, which contributes to the continent's lower levels of manufacturing competitiveness. This paper derives … unit labor costs - average wages relative to productivity - for two-digit manufacturing sectors across a wide range of …

Manufacturing firms increasingly focus on services. This trend is evident in their composition of input, in …. However, only bits and pieces of the relation between services and manufacturing's exports have been analysed in previous …. Overall, the study provides new firm-level evidence of the role of services as inputs in manufacturing. …

contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise …