A recent literature do cuments that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the … transitory. In this article, I use a new data set on manufacturing employment by occupation to do cument four stylized facts ab … past decades, and that deindustrialization has often set in at historically low levels of income. However, there is little …

of manufacturing employment have raised concerns about the future of growth given the lower labor productivity of the …'s contribution to output, employment, and value-added trade has grown quite dramatically. The rise of services and apparent decline … manufacturing in Asia. Our contribution to the emerging literature is twofold. First, we propose a conceptual framework of …

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