Urbanization, Growth and Structural Change

Michael Peters and Fabian Eckert
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Michael Peters: Yale University

No 774, 2016 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: The process of economic growth has many non-balanced features. Of particular importance are employment changes across sectors of production and population changes across space. This paper makes two contributions. First of all, we systematically document these patterns across many countries of the world using detailed micro data. Secondly, we explore wether a parsimoniously parametrized model of trade and geography featuring demand non-homotheticities can explain the comovement between workers moving out of agricultural production and across space.

Date: 2016
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