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 …

. 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 …

saturation of the services sector. Moreover, productivity growth is weakening within more labour-intensive sectors. We conclude …

Which structural reforms affect labour productivity growth in developing countries? This paper answers this question by … that financial reforms, trade reforms, and product market reforms boost labour productivity growth. By documenting the main … channels, our results reveal that the reforms studied stimulate labour productivity growth by inducing dynamic efficiency …

external economy themselves to achieve high levels of productivity, but that strong links to external sector actors are more … common among more productive firms. Third, all industries with high levels of labour productivity rely heavily on imported … services. We show that growth in output and productivity in these sectors is a strong indicator of overall economic growth …

performance, and a productivity-reducing structural transformation, characterized by an increasing concentration of low … productivity labour in the informal service sector. The paper suggests a move away from the dual-economy to a three … require accelerated agricultural productivity growth, a modernized informal service sector, and effective industrialization …

displaced workers are absorbed into low-productivity and informal market services (especially with employment increase in non …-business market services such as trade, transport, hotels, and accommodation activities). In contrast, if high-productivity nonmarket …