The main goal of this paper is to provide an integrated survey of the literature devoted to
identifying the drivers of structural change, broadly defined as the process of reallocation of …

This paper provides an overview of literature on the employment shift towards services. It
follows the three dimensions of structural change: inter-industry productivity differences, the …

Historically, manufacturing has functioned as the main engine of economic growth and
development. However, recent research raises questions concerning the continued …

We study a multisector model of growth with differences in TFP growth rates across sectors
and derive sufficient conditions for the coexistence of structural change, characterized by …

We find that international trade has an economically significant and statistically robust
positive effect on productivity. Our trade measure is imports plus exports relative to …

This paper shows that deindustrialization is explained primarily by developments that are
internal to the advanced economies. These include the combined effects on manufacturing …

All advanced economies have experienced a secular decline in the share of manufacturing
employment a phenomenon referred to as deindustrialization. This paper argues that …

内容提要: 本文研究服务全球化的概况和趋势, 并作相应理论分析. 首先对服务全球化发展状况及
特点进行描述, 从不同方面揭示服务全球化是经济全球化的重要组成部分和当代特征 …

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists
some of the economic research being produced in the International Monetary Fund on …

Outsourcing from manufacturing firms has fueled some of the service sector's rapid growth.
We model the firm's decision to outsource and show that increases in outsourcing may …