This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …

sectoral transformation, and labour productivity growth in the EU in several new dimensions. First, based on the latest data …, we document the size of the negative effect that structural change has exerted onto productivity growth over long time … structural change may have on future productivity growth. This model generates structural change through both price and income …

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 …