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Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2010
This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative price of industrial products, but has a limited effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136945
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Is Industrialization Conducive to Long-Run Prosperity?
Franck, Raphael - 2015
This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … the French industrial revolution, the research establishes that regions in which industrialization was more intensive …. Nevertheless, intensive industrialization has had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by the turn of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016331
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Jobless Growth through Creative Destruction : Ireland's Industrial Development Path 1972-2003
Li, Qi; Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara - 2021
We document the nature of structural changes in employment to understand "jobless" growth in Irish Manufacturing in the aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, forty years of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced the coexistence of large exporting plants with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316630
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Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization
Franck, Raphael - 2016
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997443
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Institutions and Development in MENA Region : Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector
Arayssi, Mahmoud - 2015
This paper examines the role of institutions (including civil law origin), financial deepening and degree of regime authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using panel data through a fixed effect model. The results reveal that English civil law origin and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029625
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Analysis of Pay Inequality and Its Impacts on Growth and Performance in the Korean Manufacturing Industry
Lee, Jeong-Dong; Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Yunhee - 2021
This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality is estimated by using Theil's index to identify the factors determining the level of pay inequality, and establish its relationship with economic growth and performance. For the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324895
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Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas Under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures : The Case of China
Liwen, Chen - 2011
under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117200
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Internal Migration in the United States
Molloy, Raven - 2011
We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across demographic and socioeconomic groups, as well as for moves of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121544
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Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980
Kwon, Oh-Hyun - 2011
Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in differences of average wages among major industry groups parallels increases in wage and income inequality not only between rural and urban sectors but within the urban economy as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121750
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Catch Me If You Can : Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution
Becker, Sascha O. - 2009
industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154487