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Sectoral Decomposition of Convergence in Labor Productivity : A Re-Examination from a New Dataset / Alistair Dieppe.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Dieppe, Alistair.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural Productivity.
- Agricultural Sector Economics.
- Agriculture.
- Convergence.
- Labor Markets.
- Labor Productivity.
- New Sectoral Database.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Labor Markets.
- Sector Reallocation.
- Shift-Share Decomposition.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Local Subjects:
- Agricultural Productivity.
- Agricultural Sector Economics.
- Agriculture.
- Convergence.
- Labor Markets.
- Labor Productivity.
- New Sectoral Database.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Labor Markets.
- Sector Reallocation.
- Shift-Share Decomposition.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (30 pages)
- Other Title:
- Sectoral Decomposition of Convergence in Labor Productivity
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2021.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper investigates how the sector-specific source or the changing sectoral composition of labor productivity has contributed to aggregate beta convergence, using a newly constructed eight-sector database. The main findings are twofold. First, both within and sectoral reallocation have become important drivers of aggregate convergence in labor productivity. Second, agricultural productivity growth has been a significant contributor to aggregate convergence, whereas catch-up in other sectors has only contributed a small amount to convergence. The strong growth of the agriculture sector has been the most important driver of aggregate productivity convergence even though agricultural productivity itself in low-income countries is weakly converging to that in advanced economies.
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