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Decomposition of Labor Productivity Growth: Middle Income Trap and Graduated Countries

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  • Gokhan Yilmaz

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In this paper, we investigate the role of labor productivity growth and whether the determinants of labor productivity growth differed among the middle income trap (MIT) and the graduated (non-middle income trap, NMIT) countries in the 1950-2005 period. We decompose labor productivity growth into �within sector� productivity improvements, �static structural change� productivity progress and �dynamic structural change� gains. Moreover, we study sectoral contributions to within sector productivity gains in these countries. We find that there was a significant labor productivity growth rate difference between the MIT and the NMIT countries, and this difference mainly originated from the within sector productivity improvements. Our sectoral analysis reveals that the most important sector that enlarged the within sector productivity growth gap between the MIT and the NMIT countries was manufacturing.

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  • Gokhan Yilmaz, 2015. "Decomposition of Labor Productivity Growth: Middle Income Trap and Graduated Countries," Working Papers 1527, Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.
    • Handle: RePEc:tcb:wpaper:1527
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    Keywords

    Economic growth; Productivity; Structural change; Middle income trap;
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    JEL classification:

    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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