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Productivity, structural change, and skills dynamics : evidence from a half-century analysis

Asik, Gunes; Karakoc, Ulas; Marouani, Mohamed Ali; … - 2020

. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly …, the overall skills upgrading is negatively associated with productivity growth, suggesting a downward sloping return to …This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …

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Structural transformation and sources of growth in Turkey

Kaya, Ahmet Ihsan; Çiçekçi, Cumhur - 2023

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the supply and demand side of structural transformation in Turkey …. 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 …

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Industrial development and growth in Nigeria : lessons and challenges

Chete, Louis N.; Adeoti, J. O.; Adeyinka, F. M.; … - 2014

The structure of the Nigerian economy is typical of an underdeveloped country. The primary sector, in particular, the oil and gas sector, dominates the gross domestic product accounting for over 95 per cent of export earnings and about 85 per cent of government revenue between 2011 and 2012. The...

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Industrialization in developing countries : is it related to poverty reduction?

Erumban, Abdul Azeez; Vries, Gaaitzen J. de - 2021

/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 …

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Structural transformation, openness, and productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Karimu, Suale - 2019

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 …

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Variation in structural change around the world, 1985-2015 : patterns, causes, and implications

Wood, Adrian - 2017

During 1985-2015, globalization intensified the factor-endowment-related pattern of sectoral specialization. In skill-abundant developed countries, manufacturing became more skill-intensive. In land-scarce developing East Asia, labour-intensive manufacturing expanded, especially in China. In...

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Roads and jobs in Ethiopia

Fiorini, Matteo; Sanfilippo, Marco - 2019

We look at how improving roads can affect jobs and structural transformation. We use a novel geocoded dataset covering the universe of Ethiopian roads and match this information with individual data to identify the effects of improvements in road infrastructure on the creation, quality, and...

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Structural transformations and the lack of inclusive growth : the case of Chile

Solimano, Andrés; Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2019

This paper describes the structural transformations that Chile has experienced in the last 50 years and how they have contributed-or not-to inclusive growth and genuine economic modernization from a historical perspective. The empirical analysis of the paper shows a premature deindustrialization...

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The role of the construction sector in influencing natural resource use, structural change, and industrial development in Zambia

Cheelo, Caesar; Liebenthal, Robert - 2018

The construction sector plays a critical role in delivering quality infrastructure, which in turn influences the use of natural resource revenues towards achieving structural change and industrial development. We use industrial organization and political economy lenses to describe and understand...

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Sectoral shifts and labour market outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa

Jobe, Amie M.; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2023

transformation in Africa, focusing on sectoral output shares, sectoral employment shares, and the relative labour productivity of …

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