This paper examines the connections of structural change and economic openness to labour productivity growth using a …-country productivity growth is estimated using the least squares with dummy variables approach. The results suggest that growth of labour … productivity is negatively related to initial levels of labour productivity. Labour productivity growth is also positively related …

distributive components of employment, productivity and output changes overtime in a system whereby the roles of economic structure … more low-productivity and vulnerable jobs generation. Ris-ing shares of the traditional services sector in the economy has …

We show that σ-convergence in regional productivity growth can be approximated by σ-convergence in sectoral … productivity growth and σ-convergence in structural transformation-led productivity growth. Applying this framework to Japanese …