Must improved labor standards hurt accumulation in the targeted sector? Stylized analysis of a developing economy
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Keywords
Labor standards; Structural change; Learning-by-exporting; Tradable sector; Industrialization;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J80 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - General
- O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
- O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
- F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
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