| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP13379 |
| DP13379 Industrialization without Innovation | |
| Paula Bustos; Juan Castro-Vincenzi; Joan Monras; Jacopo Ponticelli | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-12-08 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The introduction of labor-saving technologies in agriculture can release workers who find occupation in the manufacturing sector. The traditional view is that this structural transformation process leads to economic growth. However, if workers leaving agriculture are unskilled, the labor reallocation process reinforces comparative advantage in the least skill-intensive manufacturing industries. We embed this mechanism in a multi-sector endogenous growth model where only skill-intensive manufacturing industries innovate and generate knowledge spillovers. In this setup, the increase in the relative size of the unskilled-labor intensive industries reduces the incentives to innovate and slows down growth. We test the predictions of the model in the context of a large and exogenous increase in agricultural productivity in Brazil. We use social security data to develop a new measure of the labor input in innovation which is representative at any level of spatial aggregation. We find that regions adopting the new agricultural technology experienced a reallocation of unskilled workers away from agriculture into the least R&D-intensive manufacturing industries. The expansion of low-R&D industries attracted workers away from innovative occupations in high-R&D industries, slowing down local aggregate manufacturing productivity growth. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; International Trade and Regional Economics ; Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Structural transformation Skill-biased technical change Labor mobility Genetically engineered soy Brazil |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp13379-1 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/542190 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Paula Bustos,Juan Castro-Vincenzi,Joan Monras,et al. DP13379 Industrialization without Innovation. 2018. |
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