This paper examines the connections of structural change and economic openness to labour productivity growth using a …-country productivity growth is estimated using the least squares with dummy variables approach. The results suggest that growth of labour … productivity is negatively related to initial levels of labour productivity. Labour productivity growth is also positively related …

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and … change and productivity growth in manufacturing. An attribution exercise suggests that structural change and agricultural … productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that …

10.5 per cent per annum for the period between 2004-05 and 2013-14. Public investment in key infrastructure and … and rise in that of services, have led to reallocation of jobs and labour from low-productivity agriculture to more … productive industrial - in particular the construction sub-sector - and service sectors. The rise in total factor productivity …

foreign investment; and particularly the role of 'industries without smokestacks'. Policy coherence, together with substantial …

. Using the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database, we find that labour productivity improvements explain more than … half of economic growth in the period 1980-2021. This is mainly thanks to within-sector productivity improvements, while …