This paper documents the sources of the Republic of Korea's economic growth, as well as the associated productivity growth and efficiency dynamics during its process of structural transformation from 1970 to 2016. The analysis includes land as a separate production factor to sort out the...

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in comparison with the case of Bangladesh. Based on the analysis of establishment census data since the mid-1990s, it finds that reallocation of market share between firms...

This study aims to provide a quantitative and integrated analysis of long-term structural transformation and labor productivity growth in Malaysia. Using data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia from 1987 to 2018 and decompositions that take account of the static and dynamic efficiency...

Deutschland ist angeblich Exportweltmeister und Schlußlicht beim europäischen Wachstum. Das Land kämpft mit einer wachsenden Massenarbeitslosigkeit und beobachtet fassungslos die fortschreitende Verlagerung industrieller Arbeitsplätze in Niedriglohnländer. Die Angst der Bevölkerung...