全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Industrialization without Innovation

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w25871
来源ID	Working Paper 25871
	Industrialization without Innovation
	Paula Bustos; Juan Manuel Castro-Vincenzi; Joan Monras; Jacopo Ponticelli
发表日期	2019-05-27
出版年	2019
语种	英语
摘要	The introduction of labor-saving technologies in agriculture can foster structural transformation by releasing workers who find occupation in other sectors. The traditional view is that the reallocation of labor towards manufacturing generates innovation and productivity growth. We conduct an empirical investigation of this structural transformation process in the context of a large and exogenous increase in agricultural productivity in Brazil. We find that workers leaving agriculture were mostly unskilled. Thus, they found employment in the least skill-intensive manufacturing industries. Next, we investigate the effect of this change in comparative advantage within the manufacturing sector on innovation. We use social security data to develop a new measure of the labor input in innovation that is representative at any level of spatial aggregation. We find that regions with faster agricultural productivity growth 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	International Economics ; Trade ; International Macroeconomics ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Growth and Productivity
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w25871
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583544
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Paula Bustos,Juan Manuel Castro-Vincenzi,Joan Monras,et al. Industrialization without Innovation. 2019.

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