This paper provides an empirical benchmarking of growth, productivity and export patterns for developing NREs against … lower incomes. Despite productivity convergence in mining, as expected, productivity growth in manufacturing and services … was generally lower in NREs. Exceptions are few, in East Asia and the CIS area which experienced broad-based productivity …

This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …

stemming from reallocation induced by structural change. At the same time, productivity growth within the input-output network …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …