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This paper computes sectoral contributions to real labour productivity growth in Malta during the two decades since … 2000. The aim is to give an account of the sectoral developments affecting Malta's productivity growth in the twenty years … technique developed by Tang and Wang (2004), which allows for the decomposition of sectoral productivity growth into efficiency …
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This paper examines labour productivity convergence in manufacturing of the planned and market economies in the setting …-digit industry-level productivity metric for selected industries and applies a difference-in-difference estimator to estimate the … impact of the oil price shocks on convergence in productivity levels across industries between 1970 and 1985. Although the …
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This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a dynamic perspective that highlights successes and...
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The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
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