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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas - 2013
According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap'' suggests that labor is greatly...
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Inequality and Regional Productivity Convergence in China
Deng, Paul Duo - 2013
This paper compares China's labor productivity growth across different regions and industries, and investigates how the … from the firm level, the research yields overwhelming empirical evidence that during the period of 1995-2004 China has … patterns offer China a rare opportunity simultaneously to improve income inequality while maintaining a high overall growth …
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The sources of the evolution of China's provincial economic gap : a green economic growth accounting perspective
Yang, Wenju; Long, Ruiyun - 2020
The inter-provincial economic gap in China is obvious and tends to expand, although it is still unclear why this occurs … to show that China's inter-provincial labor productivity demonstrated significant growth convergence between 1997 and … productivity level in China's provinces widened significantly, which can be largely attributed to the combined effects of …
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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Min Qiang Zhao - In: Journal of development economics 92 (2010) 2, pp. 215-231
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M. - 2015
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … policy to reduce regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750404
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2021
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …
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Urbanization, productivity differences and spatial frictions
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana - 2019
We study decentralized and optimal urbanization in a simple multi-sector model of a rural-urban economy focusing on productivity differences and internal trade frictions. We show that even in the absence of the typical externalities studied in the literature, such as agglomeration, congestion or...
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Creative destruction and regional productivity growth : evidence from the dutch manufacturing and services industries
Bosma, Niels; Stam, Erik; Schutjens, Veronique - 2009
Do firm entry and exit improve the competitiveness of regions? If so, is this a universal mechanism or is it contingent on the type of industry or region in which creative destruction takes place? This paper analyses the effect of firm entry and exit on the competitiveness of regions, measured...
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Firms and labor in times of violence : evidence from the Mexican drug war
Utar, Hâle - 2022
This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
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Vertical Industry Relations, Spillovers and Productivity : Evidence from Chilean Plants
López, Ricardo A. - 2008
We use disaggregated data on Chilean plants, and the Chilean input-output table to examine the impact of agglomeration spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, we find evidence of intra-industry spillovers, but no evidence of cross-industry spillovers in...
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