labour productivity. The service intensities in the sectoral production mix are lower in countries with higher manufacturing … shares. This holds for both catching up and developed economies. However, servitization is largely unrelated to productivity … and employment growth. Hence, we argue that the degree of servitization is contingent on and an attribute of the …

reliable GDP estimates. The share of the labor force employed in agriculture can fill this gap. Agricultural employment shares … than existing GDP estimates. This paper describes a new database on agricultural employment covering 169 countries for the …