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Structural Change and Aggregate Employment with Mobility Barriers

Pissarides, Christopher; Ngai, Liwa Rachel - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Which Sectors Make the Poor Countries so Unproductive?

Herrendorf, Berthold; Valentinyi, Akos - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

Standard growth accounting exercises find large cross--country differences in aggregate TFP. Here we ask whether specific sectors are driving these differences, and, if this is the case, which these problem sectors are. We argue that to answer these questions we need to consider four sectors. In...

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Market Size, Trade, and the Resistance to the Adoption of Better Technology

Desmet, Klaus; Parente, Stephen L. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

the economy's population size. A more elastic demand lowers the resistance to technology adoption because the drop in the … price of the industry's output that follows the adoption of a cost-saving technology is associated with a larger increase in …

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Technological Diversification

Tenreyro, Silvana; Koren, Miklos - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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An unbalanced growth path for the global economy

Hajzler, Christopher; Echevarria, Cristina - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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A Tale of Two States

Lahiri, Amartya; Yi, Kei-Mu - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth

Ngai, Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

We study the impact of three different types of policy on the sectoral composition of employment and on the overall level of market employment: (1) regulations that reduce the efficiency of market production, such as administrative burdens on companies, (2) income transfers across population...

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Technology Adoption, Learning by Doing, and Productivity: A Study from Steel Refining Furnaces

Ohashi, Hiroshi; Nakamura, Tsuyoshi - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Balanced Growth with Structural Change

Pissarides, Christopher; Ngai, Rachel - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

We study the interactions between aggregate growth and structural change. Our economy has many sectors characterized by different rates of total factor productivity growth and producing differentiated products. All sectors produce consumption goods but one sector, labelled manufacturing, also...

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On the Age and Size Distribution of Business Firms

Luttmer, Erzo G.J. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

This paper presents an analytically tractable model in which firm dynamics is driven by technology adoption and fixed … costs. Existing firms experience idiosyncratic changes in technology. On average, the rate of technological progress among … existing firms is slower than that of the frontier technology, and this leads to firms exiting eventually. The stationary …

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