Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/229212 
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Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2019/109
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
sub-Saharan Africa
structural transformation
labour productivity growth
economic openness
dynamic panel model
least squares with dummy variables
JEL: 
O11
O47
O55
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ISBN: 
978-92-9256-745-3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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