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Unconditional Convergence in Manufacturing
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The authors found that manufacturing industries exhibit strong unconditional convergence in labor productivity and showed that despite strong convergence within manufacturing, aggregate convergence fails due to the small share of manufacturing employment in low-income countries and slow pace of industrialization.Abstract:
Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit strong unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The article documents this at various levels of disaggregation for a large sample covering more than 100 countries over recent decades. The result is highly robust to changes in the sample and specification. The coefficient of unconditional convergence is estimated quite precisely and is large, at between 2–3% in most specifications and 2.9% a year in the baseline specification covering 118 countries. The article also finds substantial sigma convergence at the two-digit level for a smaller sample of countries. Despite strong convergence within manufacturing, aggregate convergence fails due to the small share of manufacturing employment in low-income countries and the slow pace of industrialization. Because of data coverage, these findings should be as viewed as applying to the organized, formal parts of manufacturing.read more
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Productivity Growth, Convergence and Welfare: What the Long Run Data Show
TL;DR: Maddison's 1870-1979 data are analyzed, showing the historically unprecedented growth in productivity, GDP per capita and exports and the remarkable convergence of productivities of industrialized market economies, with convergence apparently shared by planned economies but not less developed countries as discussed by the authors.
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Handbook of Economic Growth
TL;DR: The Handbook of Economic Growth as discussed by the authors summarizes recent advances in theoretical and empirical work while offering new perspectives on a range of growth mechanisms, from the roles played by institutions and organizations to the ways factors beyond capital accumulation and technological change can affect growth.
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Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare: What the Long-Run Data Show
TL;DR: Maddison's 1870-1979 data are analyzed, showing the historically unprecedented growth in productivity, gross domestic product per capita and exports and the remarkable convergence of productivities of industrialized market economies, with convergence apparently shared by planned economies but not less developed countries.