Gaaitzen J De Vries
Biographic Data
| ID | 3588309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaaitzen J De Vries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaaitzen J |
| FAMILY NAME | De Vries |
| SIGNATURE | DE VRIES G J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4166-8173 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The structural transformation of transition economies
Structural change and poverty reduction in developing economies
This paper presents an empirical framework that explores the relationship between poverty reduction and changes in the production structure of developing countries. We use the new GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure productivity growth within sectors and structural change – the reallocation of workers across sectors – for 42 developing countries from 1990 to 2018. Regression analysis indicates that poverty reduction signifi…
International trade and Covid‐19
This paper examines the impact of Covid‐19 lockdowns on exports by Chinese cities. We use city‐level export data at a monthly frequency from January 2018 through April 2020. Differences‐in‐differences estimates suggest cities in lockdown experienced a ceteris paribus 34 percentage points reduction in the year‐on‐year growth rate of exports. The lockdown impacted the intensive and extensive margin, with higher exit and lower new entry into foreign…
Firm productivity and functional specialisation
This paper examines the relation between productivity and specialisation of firms in business functions. We distinguish between specialisation in R&D, fabrication and marketing based on the firm's employment composition over these functions using unique survey data of Dutch firms. Our results suggest that firms specialised in R&D and marketing are significantly more productive compared to firms specialised in fabrication. We find that measures of…
Functional specialisation in trade
This section appears at irregular intervals to present papers about conceptual debates and future developments in the field. For instance, this could be in the form of a new conceptualization, a discussion or re-development of a concept in the field, or an informed review and reflection about the field. The contributions relate to ongoing debates in the Journal of Economic Geography and speak to geography, economics and related fields in novel wa…
Technology, offshoring and the rise of non-routine jobs
What Accounts for the Growth of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Advanced and Emerging Economies? The Role of Consumption, Technology and Global Supply Chain Participation
How Global Are Global Value Chains? A New Approach to Measure International Fragmentation
Denser networks of intermediate input flows between countries suggest ongoing international fragmentation of production chains. But is this process mainly taking place between countries within a region, or is it truly global? We provide new macroeconomic evidence by extending the Feenstra and Hanson ( ) measure of fragmentation to a multicountry setting. We derive the distribution of value added by all countries involved in the production chain o…
An Illustrated User Guide to the World Input–Output Database
This article provides guidance to prudent use of the World Input–Output Database ( WIOD ) in analyses of international trade. The WIOD contains annual time‐series of world input–output tables and factor requirements covering the period from 1995 to 2011. Underlying concepts, construction methods and data sources are introduced, pointing out particular strengths and weaknesses. We illustrate its usefulness by analyzing the geographical and factori…
Structural Transformation in Africa
This paper places recent growth and structural transformation in 11 Sub-Saharan African countries in historical and international perspective. During the early post-independence period, resources were reallocated to manufacturing activities with high productivity growth. Structural change stalled in the mid-1970s. When it resumed in the 1990s, workers mainly relocated to distributive trade services. Productivity levels in these activities were hi…
Slicing Up Global Value Chains
In this paper, we "slice up the global value chain" using a decomposition technique that has recently become feasible due to the development of the World Input-Output Database. We trace the value added by all labor and capital that is directly and indirectly needed for the production of final manufacturing goods. The production systems of these goods are highly prone to international fragmentation as many stages can be undertaken in any country w…
The Construction of World Input–output Tables in the Wiod Project
This article describes the construction of the World Input–Output Tables (WIOTs) that constitute the core of the World Input–Output Database. WIOTs are available for the period 1995–2009 and give the values of transactions among 35 industries in 40 countries plus the ‘Rest of the World’ and from these industries to households, governments and users of capital goods in the same set of countries. The article describes how information from the Natio…
Small Retailers in Brazil
This paper examines the productivity of formal and informal retailers in Brazil by simultaneously estimating a stochastic production frontier and an efficiency model for a cross-section of some 11,000 retail firms with, at most, five workers. Results show that the efficiency of firms is positively related with ICT adoption, managerial ability, technical assistance and participation in a guild. Formal retailers are more productive than informal re…
Structural change and growth accelerations in Asia and Latin America
Recent studies of economic growth have moved from explaining average trends in long-term growth to study growth accelerations and decelerations. In this paper we argue that the standard shift-share analysis is inadequate to measure the contribution of sectors to accelerations in productivity. We present a modified shift-share method, which takes account of surplus labour in agriculture and accounts for the contribution to growth from expanding se…
Slicing Up Global Value Chains
In this paper, we "slice up the global value chain" using a decomposition technique that has recently become feasible due to the development of the World Input-Output Database. We trace the value added by all labor and capital that is directly and indirectly needed for the production of final manufacturing goods. The production systems of these goods are highly prone to international fragmentation as many stages can be undertaken in any country w…
Functional specialisation in trade
This section appears at irregular intervals to present papers about conceptual debates and future developments in the field. For instance, this could be in the form of a new conceptualization, a discussion or re-development of a concept in the field, or an informed review and reflection about the field. The contributions relate to ongoing debates in the Journal of Economic Geography and speak to geography, economics and related fields in novel wa…
Technology, offshoring and the rise of non-routine jobs
What Accounts for the Growth of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Advanced and Emerging Economies? The Role of Consumption, Technology and Global Supply Chain Participation
Structural change and poverty reduction in developing economies
This paper presents an empirical framework that explores the relationship between poverty reduction and changes in the production structure of developing countries. We use the new GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure productivity growth within sectors and structural change – the reallocation of workers across sectors – for 42 developing countries from 1990 to 2018. Regression analysis indicates that poverty reduction signifi…
Structural change and growth accelerations in Asia and Latin America
Recent studies of economic growth have moved from explaining average trends in long-term growth to study growth accelerations and decelerations. In this paper we argue that the standard shift-share analysis is inadequate to measure the contribution of sectors to accelerations in productivity. We present a modified shift-share method, which takes account of surplus labour in agriculture and accounts for the contribution to growth from expanding se…
Small Retailers in Brazil
This paper examines the productivity of formal and informal retailers in Brazil by simultaneously estimating a stochastic production frontier and an efficiency model for a cross-section of some 11,000 retail firms with, at most, five workers. Results show that the efficiency of firms is positively related with ICT adoption, managerial ability, technical assistance and participation in a guild. Formal retailers are more productive than informal re…
The Construction of World Input–output Tables in the Wiod Project
This article describes the construction of the World Input–Output Tables (WIOTs) that constitute the core of the World Input–Output Database. WIOTs are available for the period 1995–2009 and give the values of transactions among 35 industries in 40 countries plus the ‘Rest of the World’ and from these industries to households, governments and users of capital goods in the same set of countries. The article describes how information from the Natio…
Slicing Up Global Value Chains
In this paper, we "slice up the global value chain" using a decomposition technique that has recently become feasible due to the development of the World Input-Output Database. We trace the value added by all labor and capital that is directly and indirectly needed for the production of final manufacturing goods. The production systems of these goods are highly prone to international fragmentation as many stages can be undertaken in any country w…
How Global Are Global Value Chains? A New Approach to Measure International Fragmentation
Denser networks of intermediate input flows between countries suggest ongoing international fragmentation of production chains. But is this process mainly taking place between countries within a region, or is it truly global? We provide new macroeconomic evidence by extending the Feenstra and Hanson ( ) measure of fragmentation to a multicountry setting. We derive the distribution of value added by all countries involved in the production chain o…
An Illustrated User Guide to the World Input–Output Database
This article provides guidance to prudent use of the World Input–Output Database ( WIOD ) in analyses of international trade. The WIOD contains annual time‐series of world input–output tables and factor requirements covering the period from 1995 to 2011. Underlying concepts, construction methods and data sources are introduced, pointing out particular strengths and weaknesses. We illustrate its usefulness by analyzing the geographical and factori…
Structural Transformation in Africa
This paper places recent growth and structural transformation in 11 Sub-Saharan African countries in historical and international perspective. During the early post-independence period, resources were reallocated to manufacturing activities with high productivity growth. Structural change stalled in the mid-1970s. When it resumed in the 1990s, workers mainly relocated to distributive trade services. Productivity levels in these activities were hi…
What Accounts for the Growth of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Advanced and Emerging Economies? The Role of Consumption, Technology and Global Supply Chain Participation
Functional specialisation in trade
This section appears at irregular intervals to present papers about conceptual debates and future developments in the field. For instance, this could be in the form of a new conceptualization, a discussion or re-development of a concept in the field, or an informed review and reflection about the field. The contributions relate to ongoing debates in the Journal of Economic Geography and speak to geography, economics and related fields in novel wa…
Technology, offshoring and the rise of non-routine jobs
Firm productivity and functional specialisation
This paper examines the relation between productivity and specialisation of firms in business functions. We distinguish between specialisation in R&D, fabrication and marketing based on the firm's employment composition over these functions using unique survey data of Dutch firms. Our results suggest that firms specialised in R&D and marketing are significantly more productive compared to firms specialised in fabrication. We find that measures of…
International trade and Covid‐19
This paper examines the impact of Covid‐19 lockdowns on exports by Chinese cities. We use city‐level export data at a monthly frequency from January 2018 through April 2020. Differences‐in‐differences estimates suggest cities in lockdown experienced a ceteris paribus 34 percentage points reduction in the year‐on‐year growth rate of exports. The lockdown impacted the intensive and extensive margin, with higher exit and lower new entry into foreign…
Structural change and poverty reduction in developing economies
This paper presents an empirical framework that explores the relationship between poverty reduction and changes in the production structure of developing countries. We use the new GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure productivity growth within sectors and structural change – the reallocation of workers across sectors – for 42 developing countries from 1990 to 2018. Regression analysis indicates that poverty reduction signifi…
The structural transformation of transition economies
Economics (14 works) · Global trade and economics (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Macroeconomics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (5 works) · International trade (5 works) · Productivity (5 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works)