Structural Transformation of Occupation Employment

Arbeitspapier

We use census data to show that structural transformation reflects a fundamental reallocation of labor 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 labor by occupations, which are invariant to outsourcing. We find that the reallocation of labor 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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9321

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
• Thema: biased technological change ; occupations ; outsourcing ; structural transformation

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Duernecker, Georg ; Herrendorf, Berthold
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (wo): Munich
• (wann): 2021

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/245502
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ