This paper examines the income inequality implications of a 'premature deindustrialization' trend in middle-income countries. To identify the premature deindustrialization phase, we arrive at five conditions based on the trends in employment and value-added share of manufacture. Among these five...

Angesichts des anhaltenden Transformationsprozesses in Ostdeutschland ist die Analyse wirtschaftlicher Dynamiken in den neuen Ländern aktueller denn je. Die aggregierten Zahlen der statistischen Ämter zur Wirtschaftsentwicklung eignen sich jedoch nicht, um einen Einblick in die oftmals...

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U.S. trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries where the threat of tariff hikes declines the most experience more severe employment...