Do Technology-Intensive Activities Drive Industrial Labor Productivity Levels?

Raúl Vázquez López

Ensayos Revista de Economia, 2016, vol. XXXV, issue 2, 123-150

Abstract: This article analyzes the contribution of technology-intensive activities to the increase in aggregate labor productivity in the industrial sector for a set of 28 countries, dividing 150 industrial classes into four groups based on their degree of technology content (High, Medium-High, Medium-Low and Low). After decomposing the evolution of labor productivity with a statistical method, it was found that these activities did not contribute significantly to the increase in the efficiency indicator. These exercises also corroborate the absence of a global structural change in industry that would drive levels of aggregate labor productivity.

Keywords: Industry; Structural Change; Productivity; Technology Change; Economic Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L16 L60 O14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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