(Post-)Industrial Memories. Oral History and Structural Change

Structural Change and Industrial Policy in Turkey

This paper presents evidence on structural change in Turkey and provides an overview of the evolution of industrial policy in the last three decades. Turkey has experienced substantial growth in labor productivity in the last decade. About two thirds of the increase in aggregate labor productivity arises from reallocation of employment from low to high productivity sectors and one third from pr...

Structural Change in the Biotech Seed and Chemical Industrial Complex

five years by the “coming of age” of agricultural biotechnology. Perhaps a more appropriate metaphor would be the birth and the preschool years of the first set of commercial products from recombinant DNA technology. We have witnessed much laboratory development, field testing, and seeking of regulatory approval in the United States (U.S.) and abroad in the last decade. Finally, the first signi...

Green industrial policy: Accelerating structural change towards wealthy green economies

www.econstor.eu Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-War Germany

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector specific factors model, in which moving costs prevent the marginal product of labor to be equalized across sectors, predicts that immigrati...

Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-War Germany

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving costs prevent the marginal product of labor to be equalized across sectors, predicts that immigration...