Jobs, industrialization, and globalization [Ressource électronique] / Hinh T. Dinh ; [edited by Robert Zimmermann]

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This book is about creating productive jobs as a foundation of society in countries at various income levels. Traditionally, economists have associated rising per capita income with economic development on the assumption that more rapid economic growth leads to more and better jobs. The book shows that this is only true if growth is led by industrialization accompanied by structural transformation. Even so, in high-income countries such as the United States, higher economic growth could lead to fewer, albeit better jobs, and a hollowing out of the labor force and the economy...