Although much has been learned about the role firms play in the labor market, whether establishments within the same firm adopt similar labor-market practices is an open question. This question is particularly relevant for firms with establishments in different locales and industries. For example, a finding that wages within a firm have a common component across unrelated workers and industries...

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are important for the future of the transportation systems industry. Although widely regarded as a new and powerful contribution to transportation systems, ITS however, may have a substantial effect on other industries as well. The aim of this study is to understand the impact that ITS may have on the Michigan economy. The methodical approach used to eva...

Are Workers in the Cultural Industries Paid Differently? Wage differentials between three sub-industries of the cultural industries and their respective main industry: The case of the Netherlands This paper aims to explore wage differentials between employees in three sub-industries of the cultural industries compared with the main (1-digit level) industry to which they belong. We use data from...

We study the structure of inter-industry relationships using networks of money flows between industries in 20 national economies. We find these networks vary around a typical structure characterized by a Weibull link weight distribution, exponential industry size distribution, and a common community structure. The community structure is hierarchical, with the top level of the hierarchy comprisi...

This study is conducted to developed innovative production planning and control strategies to manufacturing industries so as to improve production performance and competitiveness of basic metal sectors Though the study was conducted through field observation and questioner used as primary data and literature review on research articles, books, and electronic-sources which used as secondar...

The authors examine industry concentration for the U.S. food manufacturing sector. This study is the first to examine whether particular subsectors within the food manufacturing industry, which operate in the presence of industry-funded check-off programs such as marketing orders, are more or less concentrated than industries without such research and marketing programs. The authors find eviden...

The majority of skill-upgrading in the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s was due to within industry shifts in skill-intensity. Traditional trade theory, represented by the HeckscherOhlin model, predicts that trade affects relative employment primarily by shifting resources across industries. For this reason, many economists have concluded that international trade has played a minor rol...

Trade expansion along with weaker environmental protection in developing countries has raised concerns that developing countries have specialized in the more polluting and injurious industries. I examine the pollution intensity of the NAFTA-related expansion in US-Mexican bilateral trade in the manufacturing sector using new detailed measures of air, water, metal and toxic pollution intensities...

Theories featuring multiple equilibria are now widespread across many fields of economics. Yet little empirical work has asked if such multiple equilibria are salient features of real economies. We examine this in the context of the Allied bombing of Japanese cities and industries in WWII. We develop a new empirical test for multiple equilibria and apply it to data for 114 Japanese cities in ei...

during the past two decades business and manufacturing have observed significant and radical changes. companies have used automation in the manufacturing, in order to improve quality and competency. it was expected that along with these changes, management accounting systems, which focus on monitoring and analyzing management decisions, should adapt with and encourage the changes. many authors ...