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Demand and technology contribution to structural change and tertiarisation: An input-output structural decomposition analysis
Savona, Maria; Lorentz, André - 2006
The paper provides fresh empirical evidence on the relative role of changes in final and intermediate demand as affecting the changes in the sectoral structure of advanced economies. These latter have led, over the last three decades, to the massive growth of service sectors. The paper draws...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328562
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Structural change in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s
Messa, Alexandre - 2012
This paper investigates the sources of structural change in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s. On that purpose, it uses the input-output structural decomposition analysis and introduces a method to correct the influence of prices on the time behavior of the technical coefficients, making them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330618
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What Follows Tertiarisation? Structural Change and the Role of Knowledge-based Services
Peneder, Michael; Kaniovski, Serguei; Dachs, Bernhard - 2001
The rise of the service economy has been the predominant pattern of structural change in the twentieth century. This article investigates the driving forces behind the recent stages of this development. Focusing on international input - output data from the early 1970s to the 1990s, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435074
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Evolutionary micro-dynamics and changes in the economic structure
Lorentz, André; Savona, Maria - 2006
The paper develops a growth model with evolutionary microfounded structural change. The model endogenises both technical change and changes in final and intermediate demand as affecting macro-economic growth, through the structural change of the economy. The aim is to formally account for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328508
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Structural change in developing countries: Has it decreased gender inequality?
Rendall, Michelle - 2012
importance of structural change in reducing gender disparities by decreasing the labor demand for physical attributes. The … results show that India, the country with the greatest physical labor requirements, exhibits the largest labor market gender … inequality. In contrast, Brazil's labor requirements have followed a similar trend seen in the United States, reducing gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316911
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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career: Evidence from Kosovo's school-to-work transition survey
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34
Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage …, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early career worldwide, a period which is perceived to be an important … determinant of the overall gender wage disparity. This paper analyzes data from the School-to-Work Transition (SWT) survey, an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331934
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Gender Differences in Earnings and Labor Supply in Early Career: Evidence from Kosovo's School-to-Work Transition Survey
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2013
Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage …, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early career worldwide, a period which is perceived to be an important … determinant of the overall gender wage disparity. This paper analyzes data from the School-to-Work Transition (SWT) survey, an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319461
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Decomposition analysis of economic growth in Afar region, Ethiopia
Asmare, Getachew Wollie - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
This paper is aimed to decompose, the economic growth of the Afar national regional state of Ethiopia in to labor productivity, employment rate and working age population and to verify whether the positive economic growth registered earlier on the region was a job creation growth or not. To do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015074015
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Productivity, structural change, and skills dynamics: Evidence from a half-century analysis
Asik, Gunes; Karakoc, Ulas; Marouani, Mohamed Ali; … - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424005
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Crossing the Tracks? : More on Trends in the Training of Male and Female Workers in Great Britain
Jones, Melanie K.; Latreille, Paul L.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2004
reversed. The present paper explores the sources of the gender differential in training incidence using Labour Force Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262153