Technical change: employment and distribution in LDCs
Arguments which relate unemployment in less-developed countries (LDCs) with a lack of appropriate technologies are challenged for understating the extent of the problem, overstating the efficiency of labor-intensive technology, and ignoring the institutional constraints which operate in the manufacturing and agricultural sectors. Comparisons are made of the annual growth in labor demand and the size of the manufacturing sector in relation to other sectors and between the rate of labor force increases. Employment shows a consistent and systematic downward trend during a period of increased output. Most of the labor force will have to be employed in some sector other than manufacturing or else remain unemployed. If the labor force is absorbed in the rural sector, productivity is shown to suffer. 40 references. (DCK)
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Lund, Sweden
- OSTI ID:
- 5266663
- Journal Information:
- Sci. Public Policy; (United States), Vol. 7:2
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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