average productivity with only a muted effect on wages or margins. Owing to the exit of firms and the increase in productivity …

primary driving forces, sector-biased productivity growth and sectoral trade integration. We calibrate the model to the same … countries used to document our patterns. We find that sector-biased productivity growth is important for deindustrialization by …

Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … balanced one in which China's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an unbalanced one in which China …'s comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well …

"offshoring", is an important element of such a (global in scale) process of structural change having important implications for … of the labour force. This paper assesses the employment impact of offshoring, in five European countries (Germany, Spain … offshoring industries and types of professional groups affected by offshoring. Results provide a rather heterogeneous picture of …