allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study … economic growth in the 1980s. Our empirical results indicate that productivity was significantly enhanced by the recent …

Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of … developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to … high-productivity activities are a key driver of development. Our results show that since 1990 structural change has been …

accord well with intuition; 2) that inter-sectoral differences in productivity change are marked -- estimates range from …

-house confers a sector-neutral productivity advantage facilitating within-firm structural transformation. Consistent with the model …

wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across … productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades, and (4) a substantial fraction of the rising … dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by increasing wage and productivity differentials across high and low …