We investigate the role of industrial structure in labor productivity growth in U.S. cities between 1880 and 1930 using … faster productivity growth but that diversity only had positive effects on productivity performance in large cities. We … estimate that this resulted in significant gains in labor productivity. …

and vulnerable to external shocks.This report strives to analyze the main challenges for economic diversification from a … productivity angle.In looking at a set of high-growth economies of the past, the Growth Report 2008 identified common … total factor productivity to growth is on a declining path.The structural shift of the Ghanaian economy into services and …