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The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security
Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Cooley, Thomas F.; Guner, Nezih - 2021
cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324939
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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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Structural Transformation and Income Distribution : Kuznets and Beyond
Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
versus China, in assessing the detail of the contribution of sectoral mean and inequality evolution to overall inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960255
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Globalization, Structural Change and Innovation in Emerging Economies : The Impact on Employment and Skills
Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909972
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Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change
Dauth, Wolfgang - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054568
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Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and Growth
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco - 2015
There is a growing interest in multi-sector models that combine aggregate balanced growth, consistent with the well-known Kaldor facts, with systematic changes in the sectoral allocation of resources, consistent with the Kuznets facts. Although variations in the income elasticity of demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024921
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status. In particular, the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033677