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The shift to services : a review of the literature
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2003
structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261657
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The Shift to Services: A Review of the Literature
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233801
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The Role of the Structural Transformation in Aggregate Productivity
Duarte, Margarida; Restuccia, Diego - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
(the process of structural transformation) and the growth rate of sectoral labor productivity across countries. We find … for some countries. We investigate whether sectoral differences in labor productivity can account for differences in the … process of structural transformation and aggregate productivity across countries. We consider a model of the structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051239
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107833
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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291847
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A theoretical model of the Chinese labor market
Fields, Gary S.; Song, Yang - 2013
This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of various labor market policies on economic well-being. Two key features of the model are a segmented labor market involving three sectors - state-owned enterprises, private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293202
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Structural transformation, biased technological change, and employment in Vietnam
Abbott, Philip Chase; Tarp, Finn; Wu, Ce - 2015
Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means GDP per capita is rising. Vietnamese policymakers, however, are concerned that ongoing structural transformation is creating too few jobs. We use data for seven aggregated sectors...
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Return to Education in Vietnam: Wage versus Employment Effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Quang, Doan Hong - 2011
Several studies have identified the impact of trade liberalization in developing countries on the return to education within a Mincerian framework through a difference-in-difference estimator or with industry-level measures of trade openness. These studies have typically estimated the return to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325919
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The Real Exchange Rate and External Competitiveness in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs; Hadj Amor Essid, Thouraya - 2013
Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia face challenges competing on the global markets, as shown by their relatively low and stagnant export shares. The limited export competitiveness has hampered external demand, growth and employment. Applying, for the first time to North Africa, the stock-flow approach...
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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries
Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
Of the world's 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion lived on between $1.25 and $2.50 PPP dollars (Chen and Ravallion, 2012). The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the...
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