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De-industrialization of the Riches and the Rise of China

Üngör, Murat - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2009

This paper tries to understand the structural transformation in a global world. While employment and output have shifted out of the industrial sector and into services in the G7 countries, the majority of world manufacturing employment is now located in the developing countries of Asia,...

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Long-Run Development in the Open Economy

Milionis, Petros - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2012

Are open economies characterized by superior economic performance in the long-run? This paper revisits this important question from the point of the view of unified growth theory. Contrary to other recent attempts to study this question, the paper considers two distinct channels through which...

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Factor Replacement versus Factor Substitution, Mechanization and Asymptotic Harrod Neutrality

Givon, Danny - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2006

under-development; despite the lack of non-convexities. …

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Technological Leaders and Followers in a World Economy

Haruyama, Testsugen; Hashimoto, Ken-ichi - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2007

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of North-South trade and economic growth in a world economy with a continuum of countries. Countries are different in research productivity. Innovation, imitation and the relative wage between countries are endogenously determined as well...

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Self-Employment Within the Firm

Bassi, Vittorio; Lee, Jay; Peter, Alessandra; Porzio, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We collect time-use data for entrepreneurs and their workers in over 1,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda. We document limited labor specialization within the firm for establishments of all sizes and argue that this is likely due to the prevalence of product customization. We then develop a...

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Entrepreneurship in China's Structural Transitions : Network Expansion and Overhang

Dai, Ruochen; Mookherjee, Dilip; Munshi, Kaivan; Zhang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This research examines the determinants of entrepreneurship in the initial transition from agriculture to industrial production and the subsequent transition to higher value exporting in China. Using data covering the universe of registered firms over the 1994-2009 period, we find that...

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Distortions, Producer Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity : A General Equilibrium Analysis

Ayerst, Stephen; Brandt, Loren; Restuccia, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the reallocation process is hindered in less developed economies. How do distortions to factor reallocation affect farm dynamics and agricultural productivity? We develop a model of...

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Tertiarization Like China

Chen, Xilu; Pei, Guangyu; Song, Zheng Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We document a process of rapid tertiarization of the Chinese economy since 2005. The employment and value-added shares of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in the service sector than in the manufacturing sector....

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Sectoral Development Multipliers

Buera, Francisco; Trachter, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How should industrial policies be directed to reduce distortions and foster economic development? We study this … the most cost-effective instrument for promoting economic development …

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Three Decades of Human Development across Indian States: Inclusive Growth or Perpetual Disparity?

Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Sikdar, Satadru; Chakraborty, … - eSocialSciences - 2014

The importance of strengthening the human development (HD) achievements in a country to augment its growth potential is … well known in development literature. Several initiatives to enhance the HD level have been introduced in India in recent … methodology adopted in the National Human Development Report 2001 has been applied for constructing the Human Development Index …

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