that China's productivity convergence remains at an early stage, with the industrial sector more advanced than services … transformation and its impact on economic growth. To fill the gap, this paper takes a deep dive into China's convergence progress in …-tech sectors. Going forward, ample room remains for further convergence, but the shrinking distance to the frontier, the structural …

We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …

This paper explores the short-term employment effect of deregulating job protection for regular workers and how it … the responses of sectoral employment to large job protection deregulation shocks depend crucially on the state of the …

Labor productivity levels in Bulgaria lag well behind that in the EU, weighing on the convergence process. Stronger … productivity growth would allow Bulgaria to close the income gap with the EU average more quickly and to alleviate the structural … productivity suggest that for Bulgaria closing the gap with EU standards in the areas of institutional and infrastructure quality …

This paper investigates the impact of structural reforms on productivity growth. A panel analysis of 20 OECD countries … finds that the impact of structural reforms on productivity growth may be weak or negative in the short run, possibly due to … run, however, structural reforms are found to have significantly positive effects on productivity growth …

fintech, and costal regions. Such transformation has boosted productivity growth, with varying impact on employment across …

The Dominican Republic has posted high rates of output and productivity growth, but labor market indicators have … remained weak during the past 20 years. This paper documents these trends, showing that the rapid productivity growth … enough to raise employment rates, and lackluster real earnings along with still-rampant labor market informality suggest that …

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000 … has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11 percent of productivity growth … during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller …