Shock has affected the future growth rates of productivity, employment level, workforce composition, wages, export … outside Latin America. The results validate that the China Shock has significant effects on future growth rates for employment …In this paper, I use Colombian data from 1996-2013 to construct two datasets that are used to assess whether the China …

structural change, and measures and empirically evaluates the contribution of structural change to labor productivity growth (LPG …

sector is highly segmented, with a relatively small core of modern high-productivity corporations, and myriad small, less … formal and low-productivity entities. This hampers efficient resource allocation and tends to entrench social inequalities … to be overcome to raise productivity in the informal, low-skill and low-productivity sector, and to facilitate resource …

occupational wage and employment data to document a global decline in the relative demand for skilled production workers in … the following decades, and declining relative craftsmen wages and employment have been associated with increasing capital …

We construct firm-level data set with matched productivity and qualification data by linking the Annual Business … as part-time status and gender on both productivity and wages in English firms. We also investigate how productivity … returns follows from part-timers, who tend to work for firms that pay too low wages for the observed productivity differences …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …