Engines of sectoral labor productivity growth

The Impact Of Diffusion Of Information Communications Technology (ICT) On Iran Sectoral Productivity Growth

A Sectoral Analysis of Ontario's Weak Productivity Growth

Since 2005, labour productivity growth in Ontario’s business sector has been zero, greatly under-performing the rest of Canada and being single-handedly responsible for most of what has been described as “Canada’s dismal productivity growth.” This article examines the issue through detailed sectoral data, and finds a wide range of variation underlying the average productivity growth rate. Some ...

Decoding Productivity: Business Cycle Properties of Labor Productivity Growth

Among the variables most often tracked by economic analysts and policymakers, the rate of growth of labor productivity is one of the most volatile and hardest to interpret, at least in the short run. Yet, it is often used to explain movements in inflation and output under the assumption that there are stable relationships between productivity growth and those variables. This paper uses frequenc...

Technological regimes and sectoral differences in productivity growth

The paper explores a novel extension of the R&D-productivity literature. It puts forward an empirical model where sectoral productivity growth is related to the characteristics of technological regimes and a set of other industry-specific economic features. The model is estimated on a cross-section of manufacturing industries in nine European countries for the period 1996-2001. The econometric ...

A Multi-Sectoral Balance-of-Payments-Constrained Growth Model with Sectoral Heterogeneity: International Competition, Productivity Dynamics, and Economic Growth

This study builds a multi-sectoral balance-of-payments constrained growth model that incorporates some structural heterogeneity between sectors and countries, such as differences in labor productivity, price competition, share of exports and imports, and the quality of commodities. The model in the current paper generates more comprehensive results than Thirlwall (1979), Blecker (1998), and Ara...