What Explains the Job Creating Potential of Industrialisation in the Developing World?
使用修正的刘易斯模型,考察了规模、构成和劳动强度效应如何影响发展中国家制造业就业创造,发现规模效应多为正面,而劳动强度和构成效应多为负面。
This paper examines why job creation in the manufacturing sector has differed widely across developing countries, using a modified Lewis model that captures the scale, composition and labour intensity effects of industrialisation on job creation. We show that while the scale effect has been mostly positive, labour intensity and composition effects have been mostly negative. Trade integration has a positive impact on manufacturing employment via the scale and composition effects, but a negative impact via the labour intensity effect. Human capital has a positive effect via the labour intensity effect. Labour regulations have no impact through any of the effects.