The Lewis Model: A 60-Year Retrospective

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Enforcing higher labor standards within developing country value chains: Consequences for MNEs and informal actors in a dual economy (2019, background): “Indeed, the pervasive role of the informal sector has spawned significant literature on the ‘dual economy’ problem in development studies (Lewis, 1954; Gollin, 2014), because the persistence of high levels of informality (and a correspondingly small formal sector) can have detrimental effects on…”
Innovation in and from emerging economies: New insights and lessons for international business research (2021, background): “A third controversial explanation has been the Lewisian turning point (Gollin, 2014).”
The changing rural-urban divide in China's megacities (2018, background): “Lewis posed fundamental questions that merit continuous re-examination, but many of his assumptions have been questioned (Gollin, 2014).”
On the Structural Transformation of Rural Africa (2017, background): “With full integration, food imports can in principle enable an economy to skip some of the above stages by redirecting labor directly from agriculture into industry, relying on manufactured export earnings to finance food imports (Dercon 2009, Dercon and Gollin 2014).”