We use the new economic geography perspective to explore the impacts of the Internet on the market linkages of two manufacturing and two service IT industries, and the consequential effects on their agglomeration. We study IT industry agglomeration at the county level across the entire United States during 1998-2004. The industries that we study are: computer manufacturing, semiconductors manuf...

this study investigates the relationship between market structure and profitability in the iranian manufacturing industries. in this study, raw data based on international standard industrial classification (at four digit code) has been used. fixed effects panel estimation method (based on diagnostic test results) has been chosen for empirical investigation. the result of the study confirms the...

this paper is analysing the role of economic reforms on the labour market in iranian industry in economic reform period (1990-2005), and in turn, it is comparing it with closed economic period (1979-1989). in order to do the above comparative analysis, the manufacturing industry has been categorized based on hecksher-ohlin and gause methodology. accordingly, we have some industrial groups, incl...

this study presents an empirical evidence concerning the comparison of  the dynamics of competitiveness in the creative and manufacturing industries. it investigated the impact of the economic crisis in the behavior of the competitiveness of those industries. the samples were 42 firms taken from 3 sub-sectors of the creative industries and 3 sub-sectors of the manufacturing industries listed in...

BACKGROUND Changes in industries and work practices have coincided with work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of MSDs and to assess postural loading in assembly workers of an Iranian telecommunication manufacturing company. METHODS Data were collected from 193 randomly selected workers in 4 units of the company. The Nordic musculos...

This study is to investigate the short- and long-run causal relationship between agglomeration (localization and urbanization) economies and labor productivity in the manufacturing sector of 28 Iranian provinces over an 11-year period, 2001–2011. Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) method was used to estimate our long-run panel data model. The empirical findings suggested that localiz...

the main objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of innovation on the market share instability in the iranian food and drinking industry with a 4- digit code. according to schumpeter that states one of the most important hypothesis in this area, says there are a non-linear and an inverse of u-shaped relationship between the two variables of innovation and market share instability. ...

Economic research on industry location and agglomeration has focused nearly exclusively on manufacturing. This paper shows that services are prominent among the most agglomerated industries, especially at the county level. Because traditional measures of knowledge spillovers, natural resource inputs, and labor pooling explain little of agglomeration in services industries, this paper takes an a...