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New Views Of Structural Transformation: Insights From Recent Literature

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  • Douglas Gollin
  • Joseph P. Kaboski

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This paper describes an emerging literature in economics that aims to merge macro issues of structural change and growth with micro data and analysis. This literature focuses on a set of related patterns of change that accompany the processes of growth and development. Traditionally, the focus has been on industrialization – and more broadly the reallocation of employment and economic activity from agriculture to manufacturing and services. The new literature considers a broader set of transformations: from rural to urban, from home to market (and from market to home), from informal to formal, and from self-employment to wage work. Drawing on new data sources, including micro data and administrative records, the literature tries to understand the complex interactions of a broad set of market failures, policy distortions, and impediments to the growth process. In broadening the understanding of structural transformation – to encompass processes beyond industrialization – this literature opens the door to a richer understanding of the processes of growth and a wider set of potential levers for policy.

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  • Douglas Gollin & Joseph P. Kaboski, 2023. "New Views Of Structural Transformation: Insights From Recent Literature," NBER Working Papers 31905, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:31905
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    1. Linda Calabrese & Rhys Jenkins & Lorena Lombardozzi, 2024. "The Belt and Road Initiative and Dynamics of Structural Transformation," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 36(3), pages 515-547, June.
    2. Soyoung Kim & Yuki Higuchi & Kei Kajisa & Yasuyuki Sawada, 2024. "Infrastructure and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Satellite, Administrative, and Multi-Generation Household Data in a Developing Country," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-1237, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
    3. Ager, Philipp & Goñi, Marc & Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar, 2023. "Gender-biased technological change: Milking machines and the exodus of women from farming," Discussion Paper Series in Economics 16/2023, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics.
    4. Kym Anderson, 2024. "Repurposing agricultural support policies for shared prosperity in rural Fiji," Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 11(1), January.

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    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
    • O4 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity

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