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-employee dataset to examine this decline from 1994 to 2007. We propose a different approach to analyze deindustrialization and generate …
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This paper contributes to an understanding of internationally generated adjustment costs by demonstrating a statistically significant and economically relevant effect of the real exchange rate on job creation and job destruction in U.S. manufacturing industries over the period 1973 to 1993. The...
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Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development of poor countries. We present new evidence on the channels through which industrialization can help poor countries close the productivity gap with rich countries. To achieve...
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premature deindustrialization have made some observers skeptical about the potential for manufacturing to play this role in …
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We re-examine the role of financial market development in the intersectoral allocation of resources. Specifically, we propose the use of a new methodology that looks at the co-movement in growth rates across pairs of countries to examine the role of financial development in allowing firms to...
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We add to recent evidence on deindustrialization and document a new pattern: increasing industry polarization over time … deindustrialization, and sectoral trade integration is important for industry polarization through specialization. The interaction of …
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Opioid addiction and mortality skyrocketed over the past decade. A casual look at the geographic incidence of opioid mortality shows sharply higher mortality rates in the Appalachian region, especially in coal-mining areas. This has led observers to make a link that was characterized by one...
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decline, and these regions underwent de-industrialization as a consequence. How different was Ottoman experience from the rest … of the poor periphery? Was de-industrialization more or less pronounced? Was the terms of trade shock bigger or smaller …? How much of Ottoman de-industrialization was due to falling world trade barriers -- ocean transport revolutions and …
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Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those … the periphery. This paper explores the sources of Mexican exceptionalism with de-industrialization. It decomposes those …
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deindustrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of world industrial output in 1750, this figure had fallen to … only 2 percent by 1900. We ask how much of India's deindustrialization was due to local supply-side forces -- such as … tradable to non-tradable goods and own-wages in the tradable sectors back to 1765. Whether Indian deindustrialization shocks …
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