The two-way integration between manufacturing and services

ABSTRACT

In recent decades, developed economies have shown increasing employment in the services sector. This trend was accompanied by a contraction in the manufacturing sector. The traditional sectoral boundaries are becoming more blurred, causing some difficulties in the determination of the role of each industry in the economic system. This paper explores this topic by adopting a methodological approach that is different from the traditional analysis in the six main member countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In particular, following Pasinetti’s input–output subsystem approach, the paper describes interindustrial linkages from a vertical perspective. The analysis allows us to capture a growing gap across those countries in the dynamics of both manufacturing and services. These differences do not seem to emerge using the traditional approach.

摘要

近几十年来，发达经济体的服务业就业人数逐步增加。这种趋势伴随着制造业的萎缩。传统的行业界限越来越模糊，在确定每一个行业在经济体系中的作用方面都遇到了一些困难。本文针对这一话题, 通过投入产出方案的子系统方法对主要发达国家（1995–2011年）进行了

分析。此分析得以在制造业和服务业的动态中捕捉到日益增长的跨国差距。这些差异似乎并没有在传统的方法中出现。

KEYWORDS:

• Input–output
• intermediate services
• subsystem approach
• structural change

关键词:

• 投入产出; 中间服务; 子系统方法; 结构变化

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Claudio Di Berardino http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3191-3297

Notes

1 For the US, the most recent period available is 1995–2009.

2 For a detailed methodology, see Momigliano and Siniscalco (1982); Montresor and Marzetti (2011).

3 For these reasons, the tables here include only the initial and the final year in order and to facilitate and to make clear interpretation of the data.

4 For instance, Bryson (2010) conducted an analysis to identify four types of sectoral integration in manufacturing and services to create innovations. This distinction is very important because any form of integration can generate different results.