Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204208 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
wiiw Research Report No. 436
Publisher: 
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), Vienna
Abstract: 
This research report investigates the relationship between the growing integration into global and regional value chains (VCs) and structural change in the South and South East Asian (SEA) region. The analysis includes a sample of 60 developed and developing countries covered in the OECD's Inter-Country Input-Output Tables. Focusing on the SEA region, we find the usual inverted U-shaped relationship between the manufacturing share and per capita income. With regards to the impact of growing VC integration, the econometric results suggest a small positive effect of the overall VC integration on the change in the manufacturing share at the global level. Very similar patterns are found for the South and South East Asian region, however, with a large degree of country heterogeneity. The main beneficiaries from VC integration in the region in terms of the relative importance of manufacturing in the economy include for example Korea and Thailand. Unexpectedly, no significant differences in the (manufacturing-related) structural impacts of regional and global VCs could be identified.
Subjects: 
global value chains
structural change
competitiveness
economic development
JEL: 
F15
F60
F63
O19
O25
Document Type: 
Research Report

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