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Accounting for Structural Change Over Time: A Case Study of Three Middle-Income Countries

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  • Michael Sposi

    (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)

  • Jing Zhang

    (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

  • Kei-Mu Yi

    (University of Houston)

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We review the main mechanisms of structural change: non-homothetic preferences, asymmetric productivity growth couple with non-unitary elasticities of substitution and comparative advantage and international trade, as well as several additional mechanisms. We then present some key established and recent facts of structural change. To understand these facts better, we develop a dynamic, multi-sector, multi-country model of structural change that embodies the mechanisms we review. We calibrate the model, and back out the "wedges" that account for the evolution of the model's endogenous variables. Then, focusing on the evolution of the industry employment share in Hungary, Portugal, and South Korea post-1990, we conduct several structural accounting decompositions. Our decompositions suggests that several of the mechanisms play important roles in the evolution of the industry employment share and of openness in these countries.

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  • Michael Sposi & Jing Zhang & Kei-Mu Yi, 2018. "Accounting for Structural Change Over Time: A Case Study of Three Middle-Income Countries," 2018 Meeting Papers 1141, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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    1. Sposi, Michael, 2019. "Evolving comparative advantage, sectoral linkages, and structural change," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 103(C), pages 75-87.
    2. Diego Comin & Danial Lashkari & Martí Mestieri, 2021. "Structural Change With Long‐Run Income and Price Effects," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 89(1), pages 311-374, January.
    3. Logan T Lewis & Ryan Monarch & Michael Sposi & Jing Zhang, 2022. "Structural Change and Global Trade," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 20(1), pages 476-512.
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