This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate … adaptation were to occur, we project that climate change will reduce Chinese manufacturing output annually by 12%, equivalent to … manufacturing sector produces 32% of national GDP and supplies 12% of global exports. …

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

We conducted a field experiment in a small electronics manufacturing firm in the US with the specific aim to improve …

This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment on women's health and decision-making power within …

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We …

nonneutral technical change between production and nonproduction labor in U.S. manufacturing industries over the 1959-1996 period …

Previous empirical literature has shown that technological change can be considered the main cause of the skill bias … (increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in developed countries over the last … model for a sample of 400 Italian manufacturing firms, showing that upskilling is more a function of the reorganisational …