The paper assembles and harmonizes sectoral data from several sources to study the industrial trends in six Central American economies. The industrial employment share contracted by 2.5 percentage points on average over the past two decades. This deindustrialization was not trade-driven in which economies substitute domestic production of industrial goods via cheaper imports. Instead, an increase in barriers restricting the efficient flow of labor...
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2022/10/11
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS10203
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2022/10/11
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Disclosed
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Central America’s Deindustrialization