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Structural transformation and spillovers from industrial areas
Blakeslee, David; Chaurey, Ritam; Fishman, Ram; Malik, … - 2018
Like many developing countries, India features a variety of land-use restrictions that make it difficult to establish industrial firms on agricultural lands. Such policies have received some of the blame for the slow pace of industrialization, and there is widespread agreement on the need for...
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Globalization and local profiles of economic growth and industrial change
Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2014
We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend - also known as Petty's law - is not...
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How destructive is creative destruction? : The costs of worker displacement
Huttunen, Kristiina (contributor); Møen, Jarle (contributor) - 2006
We analyze short and long-term effects of worker displacement. Our focus is on prime-age male workers displaced from Norwegian manufacturing plants. We find that displacement increases the probability of exiting the labor force by about 5 percentage points. This indicates that studies using data...
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Trade and manufacturing jobs in Germany
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2017
The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in import-competing than in export-oriented branches. We first document the individual-level job transitions behind those trends. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who...
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Displacement effects in manufacturing and structural change
Helm, Ines; Kügler, Alice; Schönberg, Uta - 2023
We investigate the consequences of structural change for workers displaced from the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing establishments traditionally employed low- and high-wage workers in similar proportions and paid substantial wage premiums to both types of workers. Structural change has led...
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Regional differences in intersectoral linkages and diverse patterns of structural transformation
Paul, Saumik; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2022
Intersectoral linkages can act as shock propagation channels and shape the pattern of structural transformation. To our knowledge, no research has examined how subnational differences in intersectoral linkages impact such spillover effects. We hypothesize that regional differences in local...
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Between firm changes in earnings inequality : the dominant role of industry effects
Haltiwanger, John C.; Spletzer, James - 2020
the U.S. is accounted for by industry effects. These industry effects stem from rising inter-industry earnings … differentials and not from changing distribution of employment across industries. We also find the rising inter-industry earnings … components of the recent literature: one focuses on firm effects and the other on occupation effects. The link via industry …
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Wage and productivity dispersion in US manufacturing : the role of computer investment
Dunne, Timothy; Foster, Lucia; Haltiwanger, John C.; … - 2002
By exploiting establishment-level data, this paper sheds new light on the sources of the changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the last several decades. We investigate the following two related hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in...
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Equalizing wage differences and bargaining power : evidence from a panel of French firms
Cahuc, Pierre; Gianella, Christian; Goux, Dominique; … - 2002
according to the estimators used or the industry we consider, we show that workers have an average bargaining power between 0 …
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Why do foreign-owned-firms pay more? : the role of on-the-job training
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2002
Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted to explain this stylized fact, the issue...
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