future. This paper summarizes the key themes emerging from a conference on de-industrialization. De-industrialization is a …

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain …, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of … number of cities was able to adapt to the negative shock caused by deindustrialization. The U.S. has the lowest share …

shed light on the sources of this heterogeneity and, in particular, the phenomenon of premature deindustrialization. Our … deindustrialization. Third, differences in the rate of agricultural productivity growth across economies can account for a large share of …

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 …

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 …

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 …