TY - JOUR
T1 - Industrialization and poverty reduction in East Asia
T2 - Internal labor movements matter
AU - Kimura, Fukunari
AU - Chang, Mateus Silva
PY - 2017/2/1
Y1 - 2017/2/1
N2 - A number of developing East Asian countries have achieved both rapid economic growth and poverty reduction by effectively utilizing global value chains. An essential, but often neglected, condition for their economic development is smooth labor movements from the rural to urban sectors. This paper demonstrates that such labor movements have played an important role in the process of industrialization with global value chains. After conducting some international comparisons, we examine the case of Thailand for its massive labor movements until the mid–2000s as well as discussing stagnant moves in recent years.
AB - A number of developing East Asian countries have achieved both rapid economic growth and poverty reduction by effectively utilizing global value chains. An essential, but often neglected, condition for their economic development is smooth labor movements from the rural to urban sectors. This paper demonstrates that such labor movements have played an important role in the process of industrialization with global value chains. After conducting some international comparisons, we examine the case of Thailand for its massive labor movements until the mid–2000s as well as discussing stagnant moves in recent years.
KW - Agglomeration
KW - Global value chains
KW - Informal sector
KW - Lewis model
KW - Thailand
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U2 - 10.1016/j.asieco.2016.10.005
DO - 10.1016/j.asieco.2016.10.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85009446419
VL - 48
SP - 23
EP - 37
JO - Journal of Asian Economics
JF - Journal of Asian Economics
SN - 1049-0078
ER -