The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as "China's Kuznets curve." We show that … the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little … explanatory power for our new series of inequality measures back to 1981. Our simulations tracking the partial "Kuznets derivative …

was the "cause" of midwestern urbanization, accounting for more than half of the increase in the fraction of population …

measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …

were occupied by the French and that underwent radical institutional reform experienced more rapid urbanization and …

U.S. county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been deconcentrating. In contrast …, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with intermediate levels of employment. This paper presents a theory … dependence in growth rates. Young industries exhibit non-monotone relationships between employment levels and growth rates, while …

We rely on a decomposition of employment changes into job creation and job destruction components - and a novel set of … inferences: 1) The data favor a many- shock characterization of fluctuations in employment and job reallocation, 2) Theories of … employment fluctuations that attribute a predominant role to aggregate shocks must in order to fit the data involve …

(TFP) that are common across countries. We find that automation displaces employment and reduces labor's share of value …-added in the industries in which it originates (a direct effect). In the case of employment, these own-industry losses are … employment across industries and the aggregate fall in the labor share over the last three decades. It does not, however, explain …

although the employment share in manufacturing is not expanding rapidly, in most of the low-income African countries, the … employment share in manufacturing has not peaked and is still expanding, albeit from very low levels. More work is needed to … understand the implications of these shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …

pampas; that it promoted urbanization and the rapid growth of Buenos Aires; that it paved the way for Argentine …