. These countries follow a similar industrialization pattern, increasing the weight of high value-added exports. Although Hong …

Industrialization experiences differ substantially across countries. We use a benchmark model of structural change to … shed light on the sources of this heterogeneity and, in particular, the phenomenon of premature deindustrialization. Our … countries can generate variation in industrialization experiences similar to those found in the data, including premature …

Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We find that although the roots of rapid … peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th century, the high point of peripheral industrialization was the 1950 …-1973 period, which saw widespread import- substituting industrialization. This period was also the high point of unconditional …

future. This paper summarizes the key themes emerging from a conference on de-industrialization. De-industrialization is a … process that happens over time in all countries, even China. The distinction between manufacturing and services is likely to … become increasingly blurry. More manufacturing firms are engaging in services activities, and more wholesale firms are …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage …

It is widely believed that U.S. trade deficits have displaced workers from highly paid manufacturing jobs into less … Jagdish Bhagwati. This paper models the deindustrialization hypothesis explicitly as a domestic distortions issue, and shows …