productivity growth in Malaysia. Using data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia from 1987 to 2018 and decompositions that … structural transformation but instead to sustained growth in within-sector labor productivity. At 3 percent, the contribution of …, the main policy challenge for Malaysia going forward will be to achieve sustainable labor productivity growth within …

Aggregate productivity growth in the EU14 has slowed significantly in recent decades. Structural change toward services … sectors with stagnant productivity. Europe is projected to fall further behind the US in terms of productivity. R&D tax … credits may not cure Europe's productivity malaise due to negative reallocation effects …

investigate the role of (non-FDI) net capital inflows as a potential source of premature deindustrialization. We consider a sample …

countries used to document our patterns. We find that sector-biased productivity growth is important for deindustrialization by …We add to recent evidence on deindustrialization and document a new pattern: increasing industry polarization over time … primary driving forces, sector-biased productivity growth and sectoral trade integration. We calibrate the model to the same …