Mit der Lockerung der Schuldenbremse wurde eine zentrale Voraussetzung für die zukunftsfähige Reform des Modells Deutschland geschaffen. Nach drei Jahren Krise ist nun zügiges und strategisches Handeln geboten, um dauerhaft negative Folgen für Deutschlands künftigen Wohlstand abzuwenden....

Structural transformation is widely recognized as a key driver of productivity growth and economic development, with industrial policies often playing a crucial role in this process. However, the challenge of premature deindustrialization-where economies experience a decline in manufacturing's...

The direct investment flows of Germany since 2018 are remarkable in the context of long-term development and global direct investment activities. While inflows to Germany have been below average in recent years, outflows from Germany - with the exception of 2024 - have been above average. These...

Deutschlands Wirtschaft stagniert seit zwei Jahren und das Bruttoinlandsprodukt ist kaum höher als vor fünf Jahren. Die Rahmenbedingungen für Deutschlands exportorientiertes Wirtschaftsmodell haben sich drastisch geändert. Ohne zügige wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen droht der industrielle...

This study contributes to the ongoing discourse on the complex phenomenon of being left behind at the regional level, aiming to connect it with the extensive body of literature on subjective well-being and its various facets. We argue that different types of regional left-behindness-economic,...

To counter the threat of deindustrialization due to soaring energy prices and facilitate a green transition, policymakers have devised new subsidy schemes such as the "bridge electricity price" (BEP). To analyze this, we develop a model, where the principal introduces a subsidy program to...

The aim of the article is to analyse the performance of the manufacturing sector in Europe in order to check whether there is a relationship between the level of development and the share of the industrial sector, and whether the manufacturing sector plays a key role in the economic growth and...

Over the last forty years, Latin American countries (LACs) have experienced a variety of specialization trajectories, while sharing a common pattern of weak and unstable growth. Given the accelerated premature deindustrialization path and the loss of productive capacity, manufacturing has...

In recent years, the European industrial sector has been facing significant pressures that have sparked concerns about a potential wave of de-industrialisation. The drivers typically invoked are the energy crisis triggered by the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, China's increasing...

The present article is an introduction to the special issue of the PSL Quarterly Review organized by José Luis Oreiro (University of Brasília) and Giulio Guarini (Tuscia University) with a selection of the best articles presented in the IV International Workshop of the Structualist Development...

Deutschlands Wirtschaft stagniert seit zwei Jahren und das Bruttoinlandsprodukt ist kaum höher als vor fünf Jahren. Die Rahmenbedingungen für Deutschlands exportorientiertes Wirtschaftsmodell haben sich drastisch geändert. Ohne zügige wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen droht der industrielle...

The direct investment flows of Germany since 2018 are remarkable in the context of long-term development and global direct investment activities. While inflows to Germany have been below average in recent years, outflows from Germany - with the exception of 2024 - have been above average. These...

In this paper we investigate why the process of structural change in Brazil was growth accelerating before 1980 and why it was growth reducing after this year.We investigate the causes of this change in behavior using the shift-share decomposition method.The results indicate that in the first...

The regional decline of manufacturing employment is frequently linked to the rise of right-wing populism in many Western countries. Surprisingly, contributions that directly examine the relationship between industrial decline and electoral support for these parties, as well as its underlying...

Utilizing a panel of 125 economies spanning from 1970 to 2019, we examine the role of manufacturing as a fundamental pillar of development in the era of global value chains (GVCs). We employ a layered clustering approach that categorizes countries based on income per capita and structural...

... examines the collapse of linkages between South Africa's post-school education and training system and the declining furniture industry. Using a case study approach, it explores reasons behind the erosion of the sector's competitiveness. The book shows how intermediaries -- organisations or...

Integration into the global economy can cause shifts in industries and decrease the industrial sector's share. Deindustrialization, which refers to declining industry share, is commonly observed in developed countries. However, many developing countries have also experienced deindustrialization...

This article takes a further step in identifying a more complete economic history of deindustrialization. Following the extension of the timeline and its divorce from the 1970s, this article examines the reasons for production facility relocation out of Detroit prior to the 1970s with a...

We argue that the US trade and industry sector has experienced several unsustainable sectoral processes, including (i) a fall in the trade balance in machinery and equipment and high-tech (HT) industries, (ii) a rise in import multipliers in machinery and equipment and HT industries, (iii) a...

This paper investigates the deindustrialization process in Germany and Spain from 1995 to 2018. It is argued that the deindustrialization trajectories of each country are partially related to their growth models. An analysis in two steps is conducted. First, using the OECD input-output tables, a...

Aggregate productivity growth in the EU14 has slowed significantly in recent decades. Structural change toward services has contributed significantly to the growth slowdown. Future growth is projected to decline further due to the rise of sectors with stagnant productivity. Europe is projected...

Introduction -- 2. On the usefulness of the memory of epidemics in the development of port health resilience systems -- 3. Illegal Entrants between South Korea and post-war Japan: Unfiltered bodies economic turmoil -- 4. Are the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on financial and commodity markets...

Introduction -- Exchange Rates and De-industrialization -- Regional Economies and Biased Labor Productivity -- Determinants of Subjective Well-being of Japanese Consumers -- Economic Growth and Internal Migration -- Reconsideration of the Quantity and Quality Analysis of the Japanese and U.S....

Purpose This study aims to investigate whether Bangladesh would avoid the middle-income trap (MIT) in its transition to a high-income country (HIC) according to its “Vision 2041”. Design/methodology/approach Using both actual and forecasted secondary data, three MIT models of different...

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...

Developing natural resource-rich (DNRR) countries exhibit a significant propensity for consuming luxury manufacturing products, primarily driven by the windfall generated from their abundant natural resources. However, they often lack the domestic capacity to produce these products. We...

Developing natural resource rich (DNRR) countries exhibit a significant propensity for consuming luxury manufacturing products, primarily driven by the windfall generated from their abundant natural resources. However, they often lack the domestic capacity to produce these products. We...

In this note the author discusses the trend of French manufacturing value added since the 1970s in aggregate, per capita and per member-of-the-working-age population terms and compares it with what the same figures for other major advanced industrial countries over the same period. The author...