of relative unit labor costs on manufacturing sector value added, employment, investment and exports. We find that …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 …

Tanzania's industrial sector has evolved through various stages since independence in 1961, from nascent and … one of the policy priorities. This paper aims at examining the performance of the manufacturing sector, with particular … interest in identifying the emerging manufacturing subsectors, drivers of their success, and challenges for sustained …

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 …

structural transformation toward industrialization, manufacturing in particular. Workers moved out of agriculture into … manufacturing, and the sector diversified and upgraded its structure. Manufacturing activities are subject to increasing returns to … scale, and many manufacturing goods have high income elasticities of demand. For these reasons, manufacturing is referred to …

the manufacturing sector. This paper analyzes the contribution of this manufacturing decline to the rise of the Austrian … far-right. Overall the decline in manufacturing employment has strongly contributed to this rightward shift in the … political landscape, with the manufacturing decline explaining roughly 43% of the observed increase in far-right vote …

the manufacturing sector. This paper analyzes the contribution of this manufacturing decline to the rise of the Austrian … far-right. Overall the decline in manufacturing employment has strongly contributed to this rightward shift in the … political landscape, with the manufacturing decline explaining roughly 43% of the observed increase in far-right vote …

that higher level of digitalization of an Indian manufacturing MSME increases its exports intensity. Additionally, greater …In this paper, we assess the digitalization of Indian manufacturing Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) by … using the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s Prowess database consisting of around 800 manufacturing MSMEs for the …

manufacturing sector and Business R&D expenditures (BERD), while the relationship between manufacturing and exports or productivity …Many industrialized countries in Europe and North America have experienced a steady decline in the manufacturing sector …, policymakers have suggested that a large manufacturing sector can: i) boost R&D, ii) encourage exporting, and iii) raise …