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Occupational choice, aggregate productivity, and trade

Meckl, Jürgen; Weigert, Benjamin - 2011

We propose occupational decisions of heterogeneous individuals as an alternative mechanism of explaining the distribution of firm productivities emphasized by empirical studies. Thus, we integrate the frameworks of Melitz (2003), and of Manasse and Turrini (2001) that establish the theoretical...

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What Can We Learn About the Decline in U.S. Union Membership from International Data?

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2003

This paper is composed of two parts. First, using international data, I corroborate that union density in the U.S. declined because of asymmetric growth between the union and nonunion sectors. I show union density to increase in countries experiencing strong manufacturing growth, and to decline...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Industrialization in China

Brandt, Loren; Ma, Debin; Rawski, Thomas - 2016

We see industrialization in China the last 150 years as an ongoing process through which firms acquired and deepened … seriously limit benefits. For a latecomer like China, modern industry initially finds its most success in more labor …-intensive products and processes. China's experience shows that government can both support and obstruct this process. Our review of long …

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Evaluating an Innovative Redundancy-Retraining Project: The Austrian Steel Foundation

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001

This paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training program, which is highly innovative in its content and financing – and could therefore serve as a role model for other programs. In the late 1980s privatization and down-sizing of nationalized steel firms have lead to large-scale redundancies....

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