What Explains Latin America's Low Share of Industrial Employment?

This paper investigates the relative importance of different channels in explaining the low share of industrial employment in Latin America relative to the economies that employ a large share of the workforce in industry. Differences in domestic fi...

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Main Author:	Sinha, Rishabh
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	EMPLOYMENT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION SECTOR LINKAGES SECTOR WAGE GAPS TRADE LABOR PRODUCTIVITY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/444171553534517423/What-Explains-Latin-Americas-Low-Share-of-Industrial-Employment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31450

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spelling	okr-10986-314502021-06-08T14:42:46Z What Explains Latin America's Low Share of Industrial Employment? Sinha, Rishabh EMPLOYMENT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION SECTOR LINKAGES SECTOR WAGE GAPS TRADE LABOR PRODUCTIVITY This paper investigates the relative importance of different channels in explaining the low share of industrial employment in Latin America relative to the economies that employ a large share of the workforce in industry. Differences in domestic final consumption shares play a pivotal role and can account for 50-70 percent of the industrial share gap. The paper finds limited support for the comparative advantage hypothesis, as differences in trading patterns account for less than 15 percent of the gap. More important are the differences in sectoral linkages and wage gaps which account for more than 30 percent of the industrial employment gap individually. 2019-03-27T15:02:04Z 2019-03-27T15:02:04Z 2019-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/444171553534517423/What-Explains-Latin-Americas-Low-Share-of-Industrial-Employment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31450 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8791 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Latin America
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description	This paper investigates the relative importance of different channels in explaining the low share of industrial employment in Latin America relative to the economies that employ a large share of the workforce in industry. Differences in domestic final consumption shares play a pivotal role and can account for 50-70 percent of the industrial share gap. The paper finds limited support for the comparative advantage hypothesis, as differences in trading patterns account for less than 15 percent of the gap. More important are the differences in sectoral linkages and wage gaps which account for more than 30 percent of the industrial employment gap individually.
format	Working Paper
author	Sinha, Rishabh
author_facet	Sinha, Rishabh
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title	What Explains Latin America's Low Share of Industrial Employment?
title_short	What Explains Latin America's Low Share of Industrial Employment?
title_full	What Explains Latin America's Low Share of Industrial Employment?
title_fullStr	What Explains Latin America's Low Share of Industrial Employment?
title_full_unstemmed	What Explains Latin America's Low Share of Industrial Employment?
title_sort	what explains latin america's low share of industrial employment?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/444171553534517423/What-Explains-Latin-Americas-Low-Share-of-Industrial-Employment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31450
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What Explains Latin America's Low Share of Industrial Employment?

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