Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,288
Cover Image
Structural Change Within versus Across Firms : Evidence from the United States
Ding, Xiang; Fort, Teresa C.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document the role of intangible capital in manufacturing firms' substantial contribution to non-manufacturing employment growth from 1977-2019. Exploiting data on firms' "auxiliary" establishments, we develop a novel measure of proprietary in-house knowledge and show that it is associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334346
Cover Image
The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies : A Structural Change Perspective
Diao, Xinshen - 2017
experience. In contrast to the East Asian experience, none of the recent growth accelerations in Latin America, Africa, or South … rapid within-sector labor productivity growth (Latin America) or growth-increasing structural change (Africa), but rarely … explain this anomaly by arguing that the forces that promoted structural change in Africa originated on the demand side …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455549
Cover Image
Tracing Sustainability in the Long Run : Genuine Savings Estimates 1850 - 2018
McLaughlin, Eoin; Ducoing, Cristián; Oxley, Les - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We introduce a new database of historical Genuine Savings (GS), an indicator of sustainable development promoted by the World Bank and widely used in contemporary economic research. GS derives from the theoretical work on wealth accounting, and addresses shortcomings in conventional metrics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250172
Cover Image
Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
Developing countries made considerable gains during the first decade of the 21st century. Their economies grew at unprecedented rates, resulting in large reductions in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. But more recently that progress has slowed with an economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455303
Cover Image
Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run Development : Evidence from the U.S
Fiszbein, Martin - 2017
This paper examines the role of agricultural diversity in the process of development. Using data from U.S. counties and exploiting climate-induced variation in agricultural production patterns, I show that mid-19th century agricultural diversity had positive long-run effects on population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455494
Cover Image
External Integration, Structural Transformation and Economic Development : Evidence from Argentina 1870-1914
Fajgelbaum, Pablo - 2014
This paper uses the natural experiment of Argentina's integration into world markets in the late-nineteenth century to provide evidence on the role of internal geography in shaping the effects of external integration. We develop a quantitative model of the distribution of economic activity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458449
Cover Image
African Poverty is Falling...Much Faster than You Think!
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2010
The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462876
Cover Image
Lost Decades : Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Bates, Robert H. - 2006
Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin … America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities … about a half-century (lost decades). The parallels suggest that Africa might be exiting from a period of post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466051
Cover Image
AIDS, "Reversal" of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development : Evidence from Africa
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2006
Using country- and region-level data, I investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Africa during 1985 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466487
Cover Image
Resources, Conflict, and Economic Development in Africa
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2018
Natural resources have driven both growth and conflict in modern Africa. We model the interaction of parties engaged in … illumination across the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, we find evidence confirming each of the model's predictions. Structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453405