Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129055 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
WIFO Working Papers No. 506
Publisher: 
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna
Abstract: 
We investigate the causes of de-industrialisation and potential for re-industrialisation. Using WIOD data and introducing new measures of "induced value added chains", we directly relate a sector's income share to the net value added flows as induced by domestic and foreign final demand. This method identifies the declining share of manufacturing in domestic expenditures on final demand to be the main cause of de-industrialisation. International trade has a limited impact, though differences in comparative advantage between countries do matter. In addition, the strong decline of relative prices in manufacturing points to an interesting policy paradox: precisely if successful in raising competitiveness and hence productivity growth of manufacturing, they also further its global decline of relative prices. Contrary to the stated objective of re-industrialisation, meaningful industrial policies will accelerate de-industrialisation in the global economy. To raise the income share of manufacturing, policies must target, e.g., competition and productivity growth in services.
Subjects: 
Industrial policy
de-industrialisation
global value chains
input-output analysis
WIOD
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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