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 …

endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped … "residual" productivity required to explain the observed per-capita income differences by more than one half. …

things equal. Increased participation in higher education enhances productivity progress and is accompanied by rising wage …

factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than …

inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two …-digit level under various alternatives, including an extension of Olley and Pakes' (1996) procedure. Firm-level productivity is … inferred and then related to trade. Findings suggest that (1) foreign competition pressures firms to raise productivity …

We study how increased import competition affects the evolution of productivity in a small open economy. We use a … productivity. We find that a 1% increase in the import share leads to a 1.05% gain in productivity. This elasticity translates into …