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Structural transformation, biased technological change, and employment in Vietnam
Abbott, Philip Chase; Tarp, Finn; Wu, Ce - 2015
Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means … the Vietnamese development experience. We find that while some of the difference between GDP and employment growth can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326184
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The shift to services : a review of the literature
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2003
)). Next, it treats studies analyzing differences in service-industry employment, and offers a discussion of studies focussing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261657
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The Shift to Services: A Review of the Literature
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
)). Next, it treats studies analyzing differences in service-industry employment, and offers a discussion of studies focussing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233801
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Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs:A new development strategy and aid policy
Herrmann, Michael; Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
agriculture, a rapidly increasing share of the population migrates to urban centers in search for employment opportunities outside … employment opportunities in either rural or the urban sector are not growing adequately. This paper attempts to analyze the … capacities in order to create adequate employment and incomes for the rapidly growing population---particularly in the urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789299
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China's Economic Growth 1978-2025 : What We Know Today About China's Economic Growth Tomorrow
Holz, Carsten A. - 2006
Views of the future China vary widely. While some believe that the collapse of China is inevitable, others see the emergence of a new economic superpower that increasingly poses a threat to the U.S. This paper examines the economic growth prospects of China over the next two decades....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063864
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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow
Holz, Carsten A. - EconWPA - 2005
Views of the future China vary widely. While some believe that the collapse of China is inevitable, others see the emergence of a new superpower that increasingly poses a threat to the U.S. This paper examines the economic growth prospects of China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062447
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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow
Holz, Carsten A - EconWPA - 2005
Views of the future China vary widely. While some believe that the collapse of China is inevitable, others see the emergence of a new superpower that increasingly poses a threat to the U.S. This paper examines the economic growth prospects of China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556063
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The Role of the Structural Transformation in Aggregate Productivity
Duarte, Margarida; Restuccia, Diego - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007
We investigate the role of sectoral differences in labor productivity and the process of structural transformation (the secular reallocation of labor across sectors) in accounting for the time path of aggregate productivity across countries. Using a simple model of the structural transformation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827269
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The Role of the Structural Transformation in Aggregate Productivity
Duarte, Margarida; Restuccia, Diego - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2009
We investigate the role of sectoral differences in labor productivity in explaining the process of structural transformation - the secular reallocation of labor across sectors - and the time path of aggregate productivity across countries. Using a simple model of the structural transformation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771670
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The Role of Agriculture in Development
Gollin, Douglas; Parente, Stephen; Rogerson, Richard - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 2002
A longstanding question in economics is why some countries are so much richer than others. Today, for example, income per capita in the world's richest countries is roughly thirty-five times greater than it is in the world's poorest countries. Recent work argues that the proximate cause of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852805