This paper examines industry-level responses of manufacturing employment in the context of globalization using a large sample of developed, developing, and transition economies. We find that developing countries need atypically high rates of value-added growth (about 10 %) to increase...

Driven by digital technologies, manufacturers aim to tap into data-driven business models, in which value is generated from data as a complement to physical products. However, this transformation can be complex, as different archetypes of data-driven business models require substantially...

Die Ausgaben für Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) sind in Deutschland im Corona-Jahr 2020 im Vergleich zu 2019 um insgesamt 5,3 Prozent gesunken. Während die OECD-Länder erstmals in einem Krisenjahr ihre FuE-Aufwendungen im Durchschnitt sogar leicht erhöhten, ging es am Forschungsstandort...

Research and development (R&D) expenditure in Germany decreased by 5.3 percent overall in 2020 compared to 2019. While the OECD countries actually slightly increased their R&D expenditure on average for the first time in a crisis-ridden year, it declined more sharply in Germany compared to the...

Die Industrieforschung findet in Ostdeutschland überwiegend in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) und gemeinnützigen externen Industrieforschungseinrichtungen statt, während sie in Westdeutschland vor allem von Großunternehmen betrieben wird. Bund und Länder unterstützen die...

Using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises spanning the period 1995-2006, we analyze the link between formal sector subcontracting and informal sector employment. A novelty in our analysis is that this relationship is allowed to differ between modern and...

In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide collective bargaining system, which sets working conditions for all firms in an industry. This...

The three-sector framework (relating to agriculture, manufacturing, and services) is one of the major concepts for studying the long-run dynamics of the economic structure. We summarize the empirical/theoretical literature consensus by formulating 'economic laws' of long-run structural change in...

Die Wertschöpfung im verarbeitenden Gewerbe ist in den 15 größten Städten Deutschlands seit 2008 um 24 Prozent gestiegen - und damit stärker als im Bundesdurchschnitt (20 Prozent). Der vorliegende Bericht, der die industrielle Entwicklung in Großstädten unter anderem mit Blick auf...