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Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth
Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that households expand their consumption along a hierarchy of needs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262779
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The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security
Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Cooley, Thomas F.; Guner, Nezih - 2008
In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. The data for the U.S. and for a cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of social insurance. We describe a model economy in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268612
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Structural change out of agriculture: labor push versus labor pull
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Poschke, Markus - 2009
The process of economic development is characterized by substantial rural-urban migrations and a decreasing share of agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines behind this process of structural change: (i) improvements in agricultural technology combined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269344
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Structural change in a multi-sector model of growth
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2005
We study a multi-sector model of growth with differences in TFP growth rates across sectors and derive sufficient conditions for the coexistence of structural change, characterized by sectoral labor reallocation, and balanced aggregate growth. The conditions are weak restrictions on the utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267622
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Jobless growth through creative destruction: Ireland's industrial development path 1972 - 2003
Li, Qi; Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara - 2007
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/10010268324
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Benchmarking Structural Change in Transition
Raiser, Martin; Schaffer, Mark E.; Schuchhardt, Johannes - 2003
The transition to market-based economic systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union involves fundamental shifts in the allocation of resources and deep changes in the structure of production and employment. This paper uses a simple model of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276430
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - 2014
and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international … technological transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352253
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international … technological transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884188
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Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth
Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that households expand their consumption along a hierarchy of needs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566639
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Trends in hours and economic growth
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2007
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267775