Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192407 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 425
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
The barrier model of productivity growth suggests that individual country productivity is related to the world technology frontier disturbed by national barriers. We offer a country study of the barrier model exploiting the dramatic changes in the linkages to the world economy in South Africa. The productivity growth in the manufacturing sector panel for 1970-2003 covers a period of political and economic turbulence and international sanctions. The econometric analysis uses tariffs as measure of barrier and fixed effects estimation to concentrate inference to time series properties. The model shows how productivity growth can be understood as a combination of world frontier growth and the tariff barrier to international spillovers. The estimates establish a long run relationship where domestic productivity follows the world frontier and with change of the barrier affecting transitional growth.
Subjects: 
Barriers to growth
technology spillover
South Africa
total factor productivity
econometric analysis
JEL: 
F13
F43
O11
O33
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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