Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Pieper, Ute
Author-workplace-name: MERIT 
Title: Sectoral regularities of productivity growth in developing countries - A Kaldorian interpretation
Abstract: This paper provides a Kaldorian interpretation for empirical regularities of productivity growth at thesectoral level of the economy. The statistical evidence is based on a data set drawn from internationallycompatible time series for employment and value added in thirty developing countries. Based on novelnonlinear statistical techniques the findings show: (i) a regular pattern of positive sectoral employmentelasticities with respect to output growth, (ii) robust differences across sectors in the magnitude of theemployment elasticities, and (iii) employment elasticities for all sectors that are significantly less thanunity suggesting strong evidence for increasing returns across sectors.
Keywords: economics of technology ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2000
Number: 030
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/rmpdf/2000/rm2000-030.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 300962
Handle: RePEc:unm:umamer:2000030