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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Kollmeyer 2009, "Explaining Deindustrialization"

(abs): two-way fixed-effects regression indicates that rising consumer affluence, differential productivity growth, and expanding trade all matter to deindustrialization (18 OECD countries, 1970 to 2003), but single greatest factor is rising consumer affluence
Nordhaus 2005

(Abs): Productivity has grown, and has increased employment on its own--it is not responsible for decreased employment, which is instead a function of the fact that producers overseas have better increased their productivity
Alderson 1995

(706): distinguish between positive deindustrialization (rising real income leading to change in consumer preferences, or differential productivity growth), negative industrialization (poor performance leading to being outcompeted), and 'trade-related' deindustrialization


wood 1995, "how trade hurt unskilled workers"

(61): using Olin model, trade w/ developing country brings the wages of the unskilled down
(61): the recent period has seen a shift from 'manufacturing autarky' for developed countries
(62): larger increase in important penetration is associate with a larger fall in manufacturing employment
(68): based on revised estimates, calculated to have reduced share of manufacturing employment by 5 percent
(70): there's been an increase as well ithe labour supply
(77): basically, low-skill manufactured goods are no longer produced in the US
rowthorn and ramaswamy 1999

1/5th of deindustrialization attributable to N-S trade (even then the effects are indirect), 4/5 are 'internal' to advanced economies