 Potential switchovers in comparative advantage: Patterns of industrial convergenceMichael Landesmann and Robert Stehrer No 2000-14, Economics working papers from Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Abstract: Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are especially important in the context of international trade as these determine the dynamics of comparative advantages and the resulting trade structures between developing and developed countries. In the first theoretical part, we discuss some theoretical aspects of uneven sectoral productivity and wage catching-up processes and their links to dynamic comparative advan- tages and trade structures. In the second part we present an econometric study of catching-up of wages, productivity, and labour unit costs. The analysis is conducted at the industrial level (ISIC 3-digit) over the period 1965-1995 for a set of catching-up economies compared to more advanced countries. Keywords: catching-up; comparative advantages; unit labour costs; convergence patterns; industrial development (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jku:econwp:2000_14 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Economics working papers from Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Contact information at EDIRC. |
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