Scale and the origins of structural change

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Buera, Francisco J.; Kaboski, Joseph P.
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of Notre Dame
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0531
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2010.11.007
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 684-712
• 关键词: Structural change; Efficient scale; home production; product cycles

摘要

We consider broad patterns of structural change: (i) sectoral reallocations, (ii) rich movements of productive activities between home and market, and (iii) an increase in establishment size, especially in manufacturing. We extend these facts and develop a unified model explaining them. The crucial distinction across manufacturing, services and home production is the scale of the productive unit. In manufacturing, scale technologies lead to industrialization and marketization. In services, they lead to marketization and later demarketization of services. A later increase in the scale of services could yield a decline in industry and a rise in services, consistent with the data. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.