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 …

This paper explores the way that intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection affects firm-level productivity growth … effects of both patenting and importing activities on firm productivity in Chinese manufacturing. The productivity effect of … affected by IPRs. I also find that overstrict protection of IPRs can reduce the productivity impact of both channels and firms …

primary driving forces, sector-biased productivity growth and sectoral trade integration. We calibrate the model to the same … countries used to document our patterns. We find that sector-biased productivity growth is important for deindustrialization by …

in the effect and size of productivity shocks explain most of the gap in misallocation between manufacturing and services …, while the remainder is explained by differences in firm productivity and age distribution. We interpret these results as …

in the effect and size of productivity shocks explain most of the gap in misallocation between manufacturing and services …, while the remainder is explained by differences in firm productivity and age distribution. We interpret these results as …

the south of the country, (2) the effect of the mining output shock on output and productivity growth in other sectors …

model to analyze the interplay between income distribution, innovation and productivity growth. Results still show that the …