Technology transfer represents a critical avenue for addressing the challenges associated with carbon emission reduction, warranting thorough investigation into the effects of both domestic and international technology transfer on carbon emissions. This study employs data mining techniques to...

Global population aging trends are intensifying, presenting multifaceted economic and social challenges for countries worldwide. As the world's largest developing country, China has entered a phase of extreme demographic aging, posing significant questions about its impact on the ongoing...

This Special Issue comprises original research contributions on the changing landscape of sustainability policies and their economic and social impacts. The first paper duscusses the 'green growth' and 'de-growth' recipes for global climate change. The other ten papers address the transition...

We use two surveys to assess why work from home (WFH) varies so much across countries and people. A measure of cultural individualism accounts for about one-third of the cross-country variation in WFH rates. Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US score highly on individualism and WFH rates,...

Under climate change, the ability of water bodies to maintain ecology and human activities becomes more fragile, leading to water shortages. The change in the carrying capacity of the water environment further intensifies the management difficulties of the resource-environment-economic system....

Numerous studies have explored the impact of Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) on upgrading industrial structures in home countries. However, a notable gap exists in the literature regarding the reverse relationship. Based on the cross-border greenfield investment data of Chinese...

Exploring the coupling and coordinated development of formal and informal environmental regulation, as well as their impact on the upgrading of the industrial structure of urban agglomerations, represents a new breakthrough. The comprehensive index of formal environmental regulation, informal...

Establishing a sustainable industrial structure system is imperative for transforming the society to high-quality development and achieve the "carbon peak" and "carbon neutrality" goals. In this study, we explored a low-carbon pathway of regional industrial structure optimization to achieve a...

Industrial structure upgrading (ISU) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been improving in recent years, making it essential to examine how such upgrading influences pollution emissions in SSA. However, studies concerning the environment in SSA have overlooked this important role. Consequently,...

The digital economy, which was born during the late third technological revolution, has caused significant economic and societal changes. Amid sluggish global economic growth, China's economy is facing upgrades and transformations. The sample selection for this study was conducted from 2013 to...

The digital economy plays a pivotal role in assisting the world in tackling climate change. This paper explores the intrinsic mechanism of the digital economy on carbon emissions intensity. Initially, it scrutinizes the suppressive effect of the digital economy on carbon emissions intensity, as...

This paper explores the structural determinants of high-growth firm shares in Austrian regions. The regional level of analysis allows to uncover regularities which are not detectable in firm-level studies. We find that lower mobility barriers, firm exits and technological opportunities, measured...

Decades of investment decisions by central planners left communist societies with structures of production ill-prepared for competitive markets. Their vulnerability to liberalization, however, varied across space. Similar to the effects identified in the "China shock" literature, we hypothesize...

Decades of investment decisions by central planners left communist societies with structures of production ill-prepared for competitive markets. Their vulnerability to liberalization, however, varied across space. Similar to the effects identified in the "China shock" literature, we hypothesize...

The contributions of entry and exit of firms to aggregate productivity growth are well-established in the literature. However, the impact of industry switching of firms on productivity remains overlooked. The purpose of this report is to shed new light on the role of industry switching as a form...

The industrial structure is constantly evolving due to supply-side factors such as technological advancement, the labor force, capital accumulation, and international competition as well as demand-side factors such as changes in consumer needs due to increased income levels, and industrial...

This paper examines the evolution of industrial structure change of China in a long run from 2008 to 2020 based on the analysis of stock and sector networks. First, by analyzing the stock network of China, we find that stocks with great impact on the market usually belong to industries that are...

Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion from about ten percent of 4-digit NAICS industries. These thirty industries are in the tails of the earnings distribution, and are clustered especially in high-paying high-tech and low-paying...

Tackling the crisis, readjusting the economic model: Rising energy prices, historically high infl ation rates and ongoing supply chain bottlenecks are challenging Germany’s long-standing industrial base. On top of that, entrepreneurs and the state alike are faced with new geopolitical tensions...

Russia's war against Ukraine and China's reactions have decisively changed the general conditions for industry in Germany. Industry is facing major changes in the context of modernization, decarbonization and localization. The energy transition off ers an enormous economic opportunity for German...

The shrinking of the German manufacturing sector due to the new energy crisis is currently a hotly debated topic. The aim of this article is to contribute to this emotional debate by providing evidence on recent developments in the German manufacturing sector. The analysis of relevant data...

The current energy crisis poses major economic growth risks for the German economy as a whole and for German industry in particular. It also represents an enormous structural challenge for Germany as an industrial nation. A comprehensive deindustrialization in Germany across all sectors is...

The economic growth rate and employment growth rate in Korea have been decreasing simultaneously. Furthermore, the phenomenon of 'jobless growth' due to the decreasing capacity of job creation has continued. That is, the elasticity of employment growth to the GDP growth rate has decreased. The...

This paper aims to conduct long-term projections about the organizational changes in the Korean economy and industry. The KIET–DIMM (KIET Dynamic Inter-industry Macroeconomic Model) was developed into KIET–DIMM12 to conduct this research. The KIET–DIMM is basically designed to achieve...

The empirical evidence on trade reforms suggests that these have a surprisingly small impact on the country's industrial configuration. This industrial structure inertia is difficult to rationalize in standard trade models. This paper develops a two-sector industry dynamics model in which...

This paper examines if and how deeper economic integration with high-income nations impacts industrial performance. It exploits Poland's accession to the European Union in 2004 as a source of variation in the degree of market integration with Germany. Using data on Polish manufacturing firms...

How technology innovation and diffusion influence the development of different industries has attracted extensive attention. Based on a panel dataset of 280 cities in China from 2007 to 2016, we examine the effect of Internet diffusion on local industrial structure upgrading. The results show...

We analyze how a region’s industrial structure affects its productivity and its resilience to shocks. Using co-occurrence analysis, we construct an interdependence network of U.S. industries. For each U.S. metropolitan area, we then calculate an aggregate metric of this network called economic...

Decades of investment decisions by central planners left communist societies with structures of production ill-prepared for competitive markets. Their vulnerability to liberalization, however, varied across space. Similar to the effects identified in the "China shock" literature, we hypothesize...

This study analyzes the effects of heterogeneous environmental regulations on green economic efficiency in China while taking industrial structure as a mediator over the period 2003-2017. The green economic efficiency was estimated through slacks-based direction distance function (SBM-DDF) model...

China’s military-civil fusion (MCF) policy has attracted global attention. Since 2010, China has constructed over 30 MCF national demonstration bases (MCFNDBs) to optimise local industrial structure and promote local economic development. However, the evaluation of the actual economic effects...

Decades of investment decisions by central planners left communist societies with structures of production ill-prepared for competitive markets. Their vulnerability to liberalization, however, varied across space. Similar to the effects identified in the "China shock" literature, we hypothesize...