This paper investigates how the sector-specific source or the changing sectoral composition of labor productivity has … and sectoral reallocation have become important drivers of β-convergence in labor productivity. Second, agricultural … productivity growth has been a significant contributor to β-convergence, whereas catch-up in other sectors has only contributed a …

This paper investigates how the sector-specific source or the changing sectoral composition of labor productivity has … and sectoral reallocation have become important drivers of β-convergence in labor productivity. Second, agricultural … productivity growth has been a significant contributor to β-convergence, whereas catch-up in other sectors has only contributed a …

total-factor-productivity (TFP) elasticity of output per worker of 2.8. This implies that a factor of 3 difference in TFP is …

This paper builds a theory of the shape of the distribution of total-factor productivity (TFP) across countries. The … data on productivity suggests vast differences across countries, and arguably even has "twin peaks". The theory proposed … here is consistent with vast differences in long-run productivity, and potentially also with a twin-peaks outcome, even …

Publication productivity, as measured by the number of papers, has been regarded as one of the main indicators of … reputation of countries and institutions. Nevertheless, the relationship among research publications, economic growth and World … Wide Web in ASEAN countries is still unclear. The main intention of this study was to identify publication productivity …

-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … theory-based adjustment to our data, the average values for the aggregate and agricultural productivity-adjusted labor income …