Productivity, structural change, and skills dynamics: Evidence from a half-century analysis

Gunes Asik, Ulas Karakoc, Mohamed Marouani and Michelle Marshalian

No wp-2020-18, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has been driven by the reallocation of higher-educated labour between sectors rather than the absorption of highly educated workers within sectors.

Keywords: MENA; Productivity; Skills; Structural change; Tunisia; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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