Structural change and intermediary servicesevidence for the early 21st century

Resumo

Structural change and intermediary services: evidence for the early 21st centurySectoral approaches demonstrate that new communication technologies contribute to the change in the way firms organizetheir production processes, favoring outsourcing and growth in the participation of intermediary service activities. The aimof this study is to evaluate the phenomenon of structural change, using the subsystem approach (Momigliano; Siniscalco,1982, 1986) taking a sample composed of 43 countries for the period 2000-2014. This approach vertically integrates theintermediate activities that make up each subsystem, proving to be robust to the reorganization of activities, which makes itpossible to obtain more reliable indicators of structural change than the sectoral approach. The results found demonstratethe occurrence of a productive reorganization process characterized by an increase in the participation of intermediaryservices. They are considered innovative in that they highlight the existence of a consistent downward trend in the share ofindustrial subsystems in the total hours worked and in added value. This deindustrialization process is not only explainedby the advancement of the final services subsystem, but mainly by the increasing vertical integration observed for theintermediate services subsystem. This subsystem registers retraction in the use of inputs from industrial subsystems, whichcontradicts some arguments present in the literature on intermediate services.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2021

Instituição

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Fonte

Economia e Sociedade

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

Identificador

oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8665608

Licença

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Abrangência

Brazil, Contemporary; Brasil, Contemporáneo; Brasil; Contemporâneo,

Temas

EconomiaDesenvolvimento EconômicoDados

Palavras-chave

Economic growth, Intermediary services, SymbiosisCrescimento econômico, Serviços intermediários, Simbiose