How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …

impact of AI on jobs, inequality, wages, labor productivity and long-run GDP growth are explored. …

to be strongly affected by structural change. A one standard deviation growth in the movement of labor from low- to high-productivity …

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … segregated in certain provinces. We find beneficial impact of economic growth on poverty reduction, but this can depend on …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output …