. 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 …

euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption, productivity …

euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption, productivity …

from country industry variation in the adoption of robots. Our model also implies that the productivity implications of … aging are ambiguous when technology responds to demographic change, but we should expect productivity to increase and labor …

The present study contributes to the analysis of economic growth by comparing labour ant total factor productivity (TFP …. During the last 25 years, productivity growth has also known contrasted developments in the four countries, in particular as … been characterised by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in the four countries; (ii) a decline in …

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 …

that slow growth in agricultural productivity can substantially delay the development process and result in significant … differences in per capita incomes. Some of our results indicate that low agricultural productivity delayed the beginning of the … can be accelerated, however, by increasing productivity in the non-agricultural sector. In fact, in the long run, it is …

We explain labor productivity differences of the service sector between Europe and the U.S. through the labor … allocation taking place within the service sector. We measure labor productivity using a multisector structural transformation … trade as well as business services to be the two sectors responsible for most of the lack of catch-up in labor productivity …