Structural transformation of occupation employment
- We use census data to show that structural transformation reflects a fundamental reallocation of labour from goods to services, instead of a relabelling that occurs when goods-producing firms outsource their in-house service production. The novelty of our approach is that it categorizes labour by occupations, which are invariant to outsourcing. We find that the reallocation of labour from goods-producing to service-producing occupations is a robust feature in censuses from around the world and different time periods. To understand the underlying forces, we propose a tractable model in which uneven occupation-specific technological change generates structural transformation of occupation employment.
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| Author: | Georg DuerneckerORCiDGND, Berthold HerrendorfORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-735174 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12435 |
| ISSN: | 1468-0335 |
| Parent Title (English): | Economica |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Place of publication: | Oxford |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/07/03 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2022/07/03 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2023/04/14 |
| Volume: | 89 |
| Issue: | 356 |
| Page Number: | 26 |
| First Page: | 789 |
| Last Page: | 814 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 508731887 |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
