Home Production and Structural Transformation

家庭生产和结构转型

• 批准号: 505634512
• 负责人: Professor Georg Dürnecker, Ph.D.
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Chair of International Trade, Development and Growth
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/505634512?language=en
• 关键词: Home; Production; Structural; Transformation

When economies develop and grow richer, they typically undergo large scale sectoral reallocations of economic resources such as employment, value added, and expenditures. These reallocations have been shown to lead to a secular decline in the relative size of the agriculture sector, a hump-shaped evolution of manufacturing and a gradual expansion of the service sector. This process of sectoral reallocation is commonly referred to as structural transformation. A recent and growing literature has devoted significant efforts to investigating the causes of structural transformation and its consequences for economic outcomes at the individual and the aggregate level. However, this literature generally abstracts from the consumption produced by individuals at home for own use. This so-called home production has been shown to constitute a sizable economic activity and the reason why it may matter for structural transformation is because the services produced at home generally are closely substitutable with market-produced services. Moreover, it has been argued that that rising opportunity costs of home work during the last decades have induced households in industrialized countries to gradually replace their home-produced services by market-produced services, which is a process called marketization. The main objective of this project is to investigate empirically and quantitatively the driving forces of structural transformation and to assess the role of home production and marketization for the process of sectoral allocations. A specific goal of the analysis is to show the importance of modelling intra-household decision making for understanding the data on structural transformation and the allocation of production between home and market sectors. Another goal is to explore the feedback effect of structural transformation on household-level outcomes such as family formation, child bearing and the allocation of home work among household members.

当经济体发展并变得更加富裕时，它们通常会经历就业、增值和支出等经济资源的大规模部门重新分配。这些重新分配已被证明导致农业部门相对规模的长期下降、制造业的驼峰形演变和服务部门的逐步扩大。这种部门重新分配的过程通常被称为结构转型。最近越来越多的文献致力于调查结构转型的原因及其对个人和总体经济成果的影响。然而，这些文献一般都是从个人在家中生产的自用消费中提取出来的。这种所谓的家庭生产已被证明是一种相当大的经济活动，它之所以对结构转型很重要，是因为家庭生产的服务通常可以被市场生产的服务密切替代。此外，有人认为，在过去几十年中，在家工作的机会成本不断上升，促使工业化国家的家庭逐渐用市场生产的服务取代家庭生产的服务，这是一个称为市场化的过程。该项目的主要目标是从经验和数量上调查结构转型的驱动力，并评估国内生产和市场化对部门分配过程的作用。分析的一个具体目标是显示模拟家庭内部决策对于了解结构转型数据和家庭与市场部门之间的生产分配的重要性。另一个目标是探讨结构转型对家庭一级成果的反馈效应，如家庭组成、生育和家庭成员之间的家务分配。