This paper presents a classical-Keynesian one sector model of labor-constrained growth that explains secular stagnation as the result of structural change. Structural change is defined as an exogenous increase in the employment share of stagnant activities, which exhibit no or low labor...

This paper reconsiders the labor market consequences of structural change over the past 43 years. Taking two different ways of defining manufacturing and service employment as point of departure - according to the industry classification of firms or establishments and according to the occupation...

Decarbonizing economies is an enormous task. Public debate often focuses on the job loss of workers in fossil industries. Why is job loss costly? Who is most affected? Can delaying transition reduce welfare costs? What other policy instruments may be available? We present a simple job search...

Könnte die Corona-Pandemie durch ihren Effekt auf die Digitalisierung auch die technologiebedingte Arbeitslosigkeit erhöhen? Und ist deshalb die Zeit für eine breit angelegte Weiterbildungsoffensive gekommen? Grundsätzlich ist das Fortbildungsangebot ist in der Schweiz sehr breit, und es...

Das Leben im Ruhrgebiet ist seit vielen Jahrzehnten von wirtschaftlichen Umwälzungsprozessen geprägt. Auch heute noch sehen sich die BewohnerInnen der Region einem vergleichsweise schwierigen wirtschaftlichen Umfeld gegenüber. Entsprechend überrascht es wenig, dass sich die Menschen im...

Der Cluster Forst- und Holzwirtschaft ist von hoher volkswirtschaftlicher und regionalökonomischer Bedeutung, wie statistische Auswertungen zu Wertschöpfung und Beschäftigung zeigen. Er nimmt außerdem eine zentrale Rolle in der Energiewende und der Transformation zu einer nachhaltigen und...

This paper computes sectoral contributions to real labour productivity growth in Malta during the two decades since 2000. The aim is to give an account of the sectoral developments affecting Malta's productivity growth in the twenty years since 2000, in the context of significant structural...

Understanding the microeconomic details of technological catch-up processes offers great potential for informing both innovation economics and development policy. We study the economic transition of the PR China from an agrarian country to a high-tech economy as one example for such a case. It...

One of the most significant stylized facts in the U.S. economy since the 1970s has been the decline in the share of national income accruing to labor. Many recent studies have sought to explain this trend, with most explanations focusing on structural changes such as deindustrialization,...

This paper presents an agent-based model (ABM) of endogenous arrival of technological paradigms and new sectors entailing different patterns of labour creation and destruction, as well as of consumption dynamics. The model, building on the labour-augmented K+S ABM, addresses the long-term...

This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a large sample of European countries, and it builds a quantitative multi-sector growth model to analyze the potential impact that structural change may have on future productivity...

Structural changes play an essential role in the economic development of a country. They represent the evolution of economic dynamics within the macroeconomy. As we know, the economic sectors of a country do not affect the whole economy equally and their level of output generates economic...

Die Corona-Krise überlagert in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung, wie stark der Strukturwandel in der Industrie bereits zu weitreichendem Arbeitsplatzabbau führt. Strukturwandel ist aber nicht gleich Strukturwandel: Die Art und Weise, wie Digitalisierung und Dekarbonisierung politisch umgesetzt...

In diesem einführenden Beitrag gehen die Autorinnen und Autoren zunächst kurz auf die Zusammen- und Zielsetzung des Arbeitskreises ein. In diesem Kontext werden auch jene Aspekte benannt, auf die sich der Arbeitskreis nicht konzentrieren konnte. Inhaltlich wird knapp der Zusammenhang zwischen...

This report highlights the opportunities and challenges facing UK firms when investing or conducting business in Africa, with a particular emphasis on the non-extractive sector. It highlights the mutual benefits for Africa, in terms of economic transformation and growth, and for the UK, in...

The Corona pandemic exposes the strengths and weaknesses of the European Union (EU) as well as the differences in the resilience of the European economies. This study therefore looks at how the EU and its member states can emerge stronger and more competitive from the crisis. The ideas of the...

The challenge of employment growth in SSA countries goes beyond economic growthprospects to include structural and demographic dimensions. This study examinesthe relative contributions of structural changes and demographic factors to employ-ment growth for a set of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)...

La pandemia del COVID‐19 ha generado impactos en muchas dimensiones de la vida de las personas y de las agendas políticas del mundo, de América Latina y el Caribe. Nuestra región es, a comienzos de junio de 2020, una de las más afectada por contagios y muertes atribuidas al COVID‐19. Los...

This paper traces a set of major trends and future scenarios in global structural change. It argues that across multiple domains of change, developing economies are facing novel constellations of lateness and prematurity in technological and economic development. The paper explores these novel...

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly explained by intra-industry changes during the import...

This study examines the structural transformation-inclusive growth nexus for Ghana. The data cover the post-independence period for Ghana and are phased into three periods: the post-independence period to the start of the economic recovery programme (ERP) and structural adjustment programme...

This paper discusses the 'developer's dilemma' - a tension emerging from the fact that developing countries are simultaneously seeking structural transformation and broad-based growth to raise incomes of the poor. Simon Kuznets originally hypothesized that structural transformation may have a...

Gerechter Strukturwandel ist ein von den Gewerkschaften entwickeltes Konzept, das die Notwendigkeit einer ökologisch und sozial nachhaltigen Dekarbonisierung hervorhebt. Diese Masterarbeit wendet das Konzept auf den Braunkohleausstieg in Deutschland an. Der Erfolg des Übergangs hängt davon...

This paper reconsiders two questions relating to India's economic growth: structural breaks in growth and the impact of equipment investment on aggregate economic growth. First, statistical tests of structural change show that economic growth in post-independence India has witnessed four...