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Heterogeneous Paths of Industrialization

Huneeus, Federico - 2020

Industrialization experiences differ significantly across countries. We use a bench-mark model of structural change to shed light on the sources of this heterogeneity and, in particular, the phenomenon of premature deindustrialization. Our analysis leads to three key findings. First, benchmark...

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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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Structural Transformation and Value Change : The British Abolitionist Movement

Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019

Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous … between Asia and selected other regions and aggregates are also included. Gini human capital coefficients are constructed for … regions in Asia and the selected other regions and aggregates are constructed to reinforce the importance of recognizing …

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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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Restructuring

Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994

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FDI in the Restructuring of the Japanese Economy

Blomstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper examines how inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) have influenced the restructuring of the Japanese economy and can be expected to continue to do so in the future. We find that outward investment has helped Japanese firms to sustain foreign market shares and contributed...

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Peopling the Pampa : On the Impact of Mass Migration to the River Plate, 1870-1914

Taylor, Alan M. - 2000

The Argentine economy was transformed in the late nineteenth century by the mass migration of millions of Europeans. Various ideas have surfaced concerning the likely impact of this labor inflow: that it favored the wheat revolution on the pampas; that it promoted urbanization and the rapid...

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The Cost of Recessions Revisited : A Reverse-Liquidationist View

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 1999

The observation that liquidations are concentrated in recessions has long been the subject of controversy. One view holds that liquidations are beneficial in that they result in increased restructuring. Another view holds that liquidations are privately inefficient and essentially wasteful. This...

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Political Economy, Sectoral Shocks, and Border Enforcement

Hanson, Gordon H. - 1999

In this paper, we examine the correlation between sectoral shocks and border enforcement in the United States. Enforcement of national borders is the main policy instrument the U.S. government uses to combat illegal immigration. The motivation for the exercise is to see whether border...

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