| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP17085 |
| DP17085 New Evidence on Sectoral Labor Productivity: Implications for Industrialization and Development | |
| Akos Valentinyi; Richard Rogerson; Berthold Herrendorf | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-03-05 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development of poor countries. We present new evidence on the channels through which industrialization can help poor countries close the productivity gap with rich countries. To achieve this, we leverage recent data releases by the Groningen Growth and Development Centre and build a new dataset of comparable labor productivity levels in agriculture and manufacturing for 64 mostly poor countries during 1990--2018. We find two key results: (i) cross-country labor productivity gaps in manufacturing are larger than in the aggregate and (ii) there is no tendency for manufacturing labor productivity to converge. While these results challenge the notion that expanding manufacturing employment is essential for the development of today's poor countries, we also find that higher labor productivity growth in manufacturing is associated with higher labor productivity growth in the aggregate and in several key sectors. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics and Growth |
| 关键词 | agriculture Convergence Industrialization Manufacturing Productivity gaps Spillovers |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp17085 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/546050 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Akos Valentinyi,Richard Rogerson,Berthold Herrendorf. DP17085 New Evidence on Sectoral Labor Productivity: Implications for Industrialization and Development. 2022. |
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