New statistics from Eurostat, the EU's purveyor of statistical data, shows that as employment in manufacturing declines, and "employment in the high tech manufacturing subsector decreased even more," employment in ‘Knowledge Intensive Services’ took up some of the slack.
The pattern varies from country to country. Employment in the high tech manufacturing sector increased compared to the total manufacturing sector in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Hungary, Portugal, Slovenia and Slovakia. So it looks like some of these places may be benefiting from the move to cheaper places to make things.
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