Poland’s uninterrupted growth performance: new growth accounting evidence

Michał Gradzewicz, Jakub Growiec, Marcin Kolasa, Lukasz Postek and Paweł Strzelecki

Post-Communist Economies, 2018, vol. 30, issue 2, 238-272

Abstract: Since 1992 Poland has experienced an exceptionally long spell of output growth that was not interrupted even by the global economic crisis. Using a growth accounting exercise based on new estimates of flows of capital and labour services in the Polish economy during the period 1996–2013, we study the structure of this growth, highlighting the key role of certain supply-side factors. Most notably, unlike other European countries, the Polish economy recorded both a marked increase in capital deepening, a big improvement in workforce composition (driven mostly by educational attainment), and an uninterrupted process of productivity convergence. We also comment on the supply-side factors which contributed to Poland’s relative resilience to the global economic crisis of 2007–2010.

Date: 2018
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