... according to the characteristics of the activity they carry out, but rather on the basis of the location of their workplace To exemplify, in the NIPA, a marketing manager working in a car factory will ... (which are higher in these industries) 17 on the basis of the Comparative German American Database For the sake of comparability, this database classifies occupations and industries in the US and ... distinctively information-processing economy The United Kingdom, Canada and France have nearly the same ratio as the US, and although Germany and Italy have substantially lower ratios, their informationprocessing...