positive price-income association is attributable, at least partly, to the Balassa-Samuelson productivity differential effect …

across countries and sectors. On the other hand, opening to trade boosts individual firms’ productivity growth, via a number … of channels, and also enhances allocative efficiency across firms, in turn increasing aggregate productivity growth. One …

This paper investigates cross-sectoral productivity differentials in South African industry and their distributional … consequences. The analysis shows that typically, traded sectors have experienced low productivity growth over the past decade …, while skill intensive service sectors have had significant productivity growth. This is the inverse of the traditional …