Maine occupational staffing patterns for manufacturing industries, second quarter 1980.

"Issued December 1981."

Maine occupational staffing patterns for manufacturing industries, second quarter, 1977 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Occupational profiles of selected non-manufacturing industries /

"May 1975."

Updating the 1980 Maine occupational wages in manufacturing industries to August 1983.

Researched and prepared by Ronald Leonard and Ronald Speckmann.

Maine occupational wages in manufacturing industries /

Description based on: 1978.

Maine occupational staffing patterns for manufacturing industries, second quarter 1986.

"Issued January 1988."

Hourly compensation costs for production workers : 40 manufacturing industries ... countries, 1975 and ... /

Latest issue consulted: 1983-93.

Occupational employment of selected non-manufacturing industries : trade, transportation, and communication, Tennessee, 1979 /

Cover title: Transportation, communication & trade occupations in Tennessee, 1979.

Industry wage survey : nonferrous metal manufacturing industries, February 1981 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Manufacturing Industries

Title varies: v.1-5, Administration; the Journal of Business Analysis and Control; v.6-7, Management and Administration; v.8-11, Management and Administration in Manufacturing Industries; v.12-17, Manufacturing Industries

Report on the non-metallic minerals used in the Canadian manufacturing industries,

"No. 305."

Trade liberalisation and technical efficiency: Evidence from Bangladesh manufacturing industries

The paper investigates the effects of trade liberalisation on the technical efficiency of the Bangladesh manufacturing sector by estimating a combined stochastic frontier-inefficiency model using panel data for the period 197894 for 25 three-digit level industries. The results show that the overall technical efficiency of the manufacturing sector as well as the technical efficiencies of the majority of the individual industries has increased over time. The findings also clearly suggest that trade liberalisation, proxied by export orientation and capital deepening, has had significant impact on the reduction of the overall technical inefficiency. Similarly, the scale of operation and the proportion of non-production labour in total employment appear as important determinants of technical inefficiency. The evidence also indicates that both export-promoting and import-substituting industries have experienced rises in technical efficiencies over time. Besides, the results are suggestive of neutral technical change, although (at the 5 per cent level of significance) the empirical results indicate that there was no technical change in the manufacturing industries. Finally, the joint test based on the likelihood ratio (LR) test rejects the Cobb-Douglas production technology as description of the database given the specification of the translog production technology.

ICT and technical efficiency of the manufacturing industries in Iran

This paper extends the existing evidence on the relationship between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and productivity using data from the entire Iranian manufacturing sector (22 industries) over the period 1993?1999. Estimates of efficiency using panel data confirm the positive and significant impact of ICT investments on productivity. Our finding is consistent with the most recent literatures in the context of developed and a few middle-income developing countries. Human capital and increasing ICT capital are probably two determining factors in gaining the positive payoffs from ICT investments in Iran.

The innovation value chain and export performance:a study of Taiwanese manufacturing industries

This thesis involves the secondary data of 1806 innovative manufacturing firms derived from the database of 2nd Taiwanese Innovation Survey. Three topics are researched. The first topic investigates the innovation value chain (IVC) in Taiwanese manufacturing firms. Previous IVC studies are all done in developed countries such as UK, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Switzerland, and it leaves the gap of those non-developed countries. The result shows the overall knowledge sourcing pattern of Taiwanese manufacturing firms presenting a complementary relationship which is consistent to the previous IVC studies. The main innovation input is still derived from internal R&D which suggests more utilisation of external knowledge may boost innovation outcome. Product innovation does enhance firm growth while process innovation reduces a firm’s productivity. The second topic uses the lens of IVC to investigate the difference of the innovation process from knowledge linkages to value added between high-tech and low- tech sectors. The findings indicate (1) there are significant differences in the IVC between high- and low-tech sectors, however these are defined; (2) how you define ‘sector’ matters i.e. the nature of the high-tech and low-tech differences varies depending on whether the technology definition is carried out at the industry or firm level; and (3) the high uncertainty of innovation cause the difficulty to predict firm performance especially for those firms with high intensity of innovation. The third topic investigates the innovation-exporting relationship and explores the determinants of export performance. Product innovation enhances export performance once a firm enters international markets while process innovation affects negatively on a firm’s likelihood of being an exporter. Furthermore, IP protection is found to affect directly export performance positively.