How persistent is industry specialisation over time in industrialised countries?
by Edward N. Wolff
International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM), Vol. 19, No. 1/2, 2000

Abstract: I use the 1994 OECD Structural Analysis database, which provides statistics on output for 33 manufacturing industries in 14 OECD countries over the period 1970 to 1993. I find that in 1970, these countries tended to specialise manufacturing production in very different industries and that most countries retained their specialisation between 1970 and 1993. I conclude that the general stability in industries of specialisation over time lends support to the increasing internal returns to scale models and tends to contradict the standard factor-price equalisation models. The results of this paper also suggest that increasing internal returns to scale and learning-by-doing may serve as a complement to patent protection and other forms of intellectual property rights.

Online publication date: Mon, 07-Jul-2003

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