stemming from reallocation induced by structural change. At the same time, productivity growth within the input-output network … fraction of production by services sectors. We develop a multisector growth model that admits structural change in production … networks along the balanced growth path to study these trends. Disaggregated final expenditure data reveal that inputs to …

This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on economic growth in 25 OECD countries between … results suggest that product market reforms mostly cause slight negative growth, except when implemented during periods of … neutral fiscal policy. Labour market reforms hurt growth under tight and neutral fiscal policy but are conducive to economic …

This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …

business size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall … effects of firm size on TFP growth are negative …

This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income dis-parities) that give rise to …, respectively. We show how skill-biased growth leads to an expansion of the individualistic and communitarian groups, at the expense …-nationalist policies (which destroy productivity, compress the income distribution and promote the benefits of social affiliation) …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than …This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a … labour can explain a significant fraction of the international variation in TFP growth. …