Industrialization and Poverty Reduction in East Asia: Internal Labor Movements Matter

Fukunari Kimura and Mateus Chang
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Mateus Chang: Graduate School of Economics, Keio University

No 2016-022, Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series from Institute for Economics Studies, Keio University

Abstract: A number of developing East Asian countries have achieved both rapid economic growth and poverty reduction by effectively utilizing global value chains. An essential, but often neglected, condition for their economic development is smooth labor movements from the rural to urban sectors. This paper demonstrates that such labor movements have played an important role in the process of industrialization with global value chains. After conducting some international comparisons, we examine the case of Thailand for its massive labor movements until the mid-2000s as well as discussing stagnant moves in recent years.

Keywords: Global Value Chains; Agglomeration; Lewis model; Informal Sector; Thailand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F66 J0 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2016-10-15
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