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estimates of the contribution of labor, capital, education, and total factor productivity for the three sectors of agriculture …. Reallocation of workers from agriculture to industry and services has contributed 1.2 percentage points to productivity growth in …'s aggregate productivity growth. In contrast, 45 percent of the growth in India in the second sub-period came in services …
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employment and capital growth of local firms with higher productivity and that this effect is concentrated among young firms … important gains in aggregate industry productivity and that changes in the allocation of labor play a central role in driving …
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We study the impact of intersectoral and interregional trade linkages in propagating disaggregated productivity changes … of measured TFP, GDP, and employment to regional and sectoral productivity changes. We find that the elasticities vary …
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-level productivity in a two-country DSGE model with heterogenous producers and an endogenous dynamic export participation decision. First …
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We investigate the link between real exchange rates and sectoral total factor productivity measures for countries in … previous studies that have found little relationship between productivity levels and the real exchange rate among high …
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We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination frictions. We fit the model to sector-specific vacancy and output data along with publicly-available statistics that characterize the distribution of worker and employer wage...
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Melitz (2003) demonstrates that greater trade openness raises industry productivity via a selection effect and via a … static and dynamic efficiency gains. That is, although freer trade improves industry productivity in a level sense, it harms … endogenises the growth rate of industry productivity and we show that liberalisation slows growth …
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firm framework. The paper also shows how the aggregate industry productivity growth generated by the reallocations …, the paper provides an extension of Krugman's (1980) trade model that incorporates firm level productivity differences …. Firms with different productivity levels coexist in an industry because each firm faces initial uncertainty concerning its …
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reallocation is closely linked to productivity. While these patterns hold on average, the extent to which the reallocation dynamics … accelerated reallocation even more productivity enhancing than reallocation in normal times. In the Great Recession, we find the … intensity of reallocation fell rather than rose and the reallocation that did occur was less productivity enhancing than in …
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) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield … much larger reductions in emissions than those that reduce emission intensities by increasing overall productivity because …
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