manufacturing sectors across 64 countries. A robust finding is that bureaucratic and costly entry regulations tend to hamper … also associated with a larger average firm size. Conversely, credit information registries are associated with lower price …-cost margin and smaller average firm size in industries that rely heavily on external finance-consistent with access to finance …

This paper examines industry-level responses of manufacturing employment in the context of globalization using a large … value-added growth (about 10 %) to increase manufacturing employment appreciably (about 4 %). The employment benefits of …

Growth in U.S. manufacturing’s real value-added has exceeded that of aggregate GDP, except during recessions, leading … many to conclude that the sector is healthy and that the 30 percent decline in manufacturing employment since 2000 is … largely the consequence of automation. The robust growth in real manufacturing GDP, however, is driven by one industry segment …

contrast to some recent studies, we show that the importance of manufacturing for the world economy has not declined during the … manufacturing underestimates the importance of manufacturing. Many former in-house activities of manufacturing are nowadays … of activities interlinked with manufacturing became the dominant driver of deindustrialisation in these countries. We are …

Rising energy prices might lead to adjustments along the supply chain and make firms outsource energy … firm-level data on energy use, imports, and material purchases. I document that import shares in German industry have … show in a quasi-experimental setup that a sudden drastic drop in electricity prices has not led firms to significantly …