The World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys (WES( for the manufacturing firms in Egypt are used to study the characteristics of … exporting firms and the determinants of the exporting behavior in the Egyptian manufacturing sector in general and to … investigate the link between the exporting activities and the workforce skills-intensity in the Egyptian manufacturing sector in …

This paper investigates the relationship between growing import penetration and manufacturing employment growth in 12 … country of origin. The findings emphasize a weak positive overall impact of growing trade on manufacturing employment. However …, intermediate inputs from China and the new EU members are substitutes to manufacturing employment in highly developed countries …

manufacturing employment of between 89,900 and 209,800 workers – accounting for 8.5 to 19.8 per cent of manufacturing employment in … 1991. Such an effect seems best described as sizable, but not one that by itself spelled the end of manufacturing industry … in Australia. The largest impacts from growth in Chinese imports are found for manufacturing industries most exposed to …

paper empirically explores a linkage between the shift from permanent to temporary workers in the Japanese manufacturing … sector and economic globalization, using various industry level data. We find that FDI and/or outsourcing tend to encourage … suggests that the impact of these globalization channels is sizable relative to the impact of the Worker Dispatching Act in …

The central aim of this paper is to assess the effects of economic globalization on the level and volatility of labor … demand for different skill groups in Tunisia. Using a panel dataset covering six manufacturing industries between 1983 and …