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. 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 change is an important driver of productivity growth at the aggregate level. While previous productivity … to another. We develop an improved productivity decomposition that accounts for both intra-industry and inter … productivity to the industry level. The proposed decomposition is applied to Finland's information and communication technology …
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-house confers a sector-neutral productivity advantage facilitating within-firm structural transformation. Consistent with the model …
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productivity constructed from micro data to find that in the aftermath of the reforms, efficiency gains were explained by within … partially accounted for the improvement in manufacturing performance. -- plant dynamics ; productivity ; manufacturing ; Chile …
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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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This paper revisits the role of the manufacturing sector during the middle-income stage. By exploiting a large dataset that covers internationally comparable sectoral information, we prove that the manufacturing sector is imbued with three important characteristics. First, for middle-income...
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We compare the productivity performances of 15 matched manufacturing sectors in Korea and Taiwan, using the Malmquist … productivity indexes, based on category-wise meta frontiers, 1978-1996. Comparisons at the sector levels are made using sequential … multiplicative products of the indexes. The overall productivity and technology growth rates of Taiwan were higher than those of …
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productivity constructed from micro data to find that in the aftermath of the reforms, efficiency gains were explained by within …
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This paper investigates the evolution of aggregate productivity and markups among French manufacturing firms between … 1994 and 2016, by focusing on the role of reallocation with respect to both aggregate measures. Firm-level productivity and … aggregate productivity growth of about 34% over the whole period while aggregate markups are found to remain relatively stable …
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This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition from the People's Republic of China (PRC) experience greater skill upgrading (increased demand for skilled workers). Using an industry panel dataset over the period 1980–2010,...
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