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Structural transformation, openness, and productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa

This paper examines the connections of structural change and economic openness to labour productivity growth using a panel data set of 41 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1991-2015. A dynamic panel model of cross-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 to the shares of labour in industry and services. However, the share of labour in agriculture has no statistically significant relationship with labour productivity growth. Economic openness also appears to have a weak relationship with labour productivity growth.

Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-92-9256-745-3

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2019/109

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
Economywide Country Studies: Africa
Thema
sub-Saharan Africa
structural transformation
labour productivity growth
economic openness
dynamic panel model
least squares with dummy variables

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Karimu, Suale
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2019

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2019/745-3
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Karimu, Suale
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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