Unconditional Convergence

Dani Rodrik

No 8631, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The paper documents this finding for 4-digit manufacturing sectors for a large group of developed and developing countries over the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional convergence is estimated quite precisely and is large, at 3.0-5.6 percent per year depending on the estimation horizon. The result is robust to a large number of specification tests, and statistically highly significant. Because of data coverage, these findings should be as viewed as applying to the organized, formal parts of manufacturing.

Keywords: Convergence; Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-11
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