Structural change, productivity growth and labour market turbulence in Africa

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	Structural change, productivity growth and labour market turbulence in Africa
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	2022-06-23
出版年	2022
国家	英国
领域	地球科学 ; 资源环境
英文摘要	Emmanuel Mensah, Solomon Owusu, Neil Foster-McGregor and Adam Szirmai This paper presents a shift-share decomposition of the role of structural change in driving labour productivity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The paper further examines the effect that the observed structural change has had upon the dynamics of labour markets in SSA. The analysis is based on a newly constructed dataset, the Extended Africa Sector Database. This database updates and extends the Africa Sector Database of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre. It includes eighteen countries covering the period 1960–2015. Overall, the database shows that productivity growth has been slow, with large and persistent sectoral productivity gaps present. The extent of structural change has been higher than that observed in previous studies, however. But while the share of employment and value added in agriculture has declined, resources have been pulled into certain service sectors that have relatively low productivity, thus limiting aggregate productivity improvements. The general direction of structural change has not been towards the most productive sectors. Results of the labour market analysis complement this analysis, providing suggestive evidence of a role for labour market institutional arrangements in many SSA countries in affecting these outcomes.
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来源平台	Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/350366
专题	地球科学资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Related Programmes. Structural change, productivity growth and labour market turbulence in Africa,2022.