The low pace of Latin American productivity growth in recent decades, despite extensive economic reforms, has yet to be understood in a longer-run context where factors such as demographic changes, structural shifts, and investment levels can be taken fully into account. The OxLAD database provides comparable sectoral output and workforce series over 1900–2000 for the six leading economies in the region for the first time. Our analysis of this new dataset shows that: intersectoral resource reallocation reduced aggregate productivity growth in all three periods; total factor productivity growth was low throughout the century, and even negative in the closing three decades; and thus factor accumulation— investment in fixed capital and skilled...
The industrialization of developing countries has fundamentally transformed work, employment, and la...
Most Latin American countries experienced their last peak in output per capita relative to the Unite...
We investigate the role of sectorial differences in labor productivity and the process of structural...
The low pace of Latin American productivity growth in recent decades, despite extensive economic ref...
The low pace of Latin American productivity growth in recent decades, despite extensive economic ref...
Analysis of new comparable series on output and employment between 1900 and 2000 for Argentina, Braz...
Most Latin American countries experienced their last peak in output per capita relative to the Unite...
Latin American economic history suggests that nothing is predetermined about the region's mixed...
I investigate the role of sectoral di¤erences in labor productivity and the process of structural tr...
Most Latin American countries experienced their last peak in output per capita relative to the Unite...
This article examines the e¤ects of sectorial shifts and structural transformation on the recent pro...
This article examines the e¤ects of sectorial shifts and structural transformation on the recent pro...
Due to widespread government intervention and import-substitution industrialization, there has been ...
Includes bibliographyThe 1980s and 1990s have been decades of instability and slow growth for most o...
This paper examines the aggregate productivity performance and discusses the economic growth experie...
The industrialization of developing countries has fundamentally transformed work, employment, and la...
Most Latin American countries experienced their last peak in output per capita relative to the Unite...
We investigate the role of sectorial differences in labor productivity and the process of structural...
The low pace of Latin American productivity growth in recent decades, despite extensive economic ref...
The low pace of Latin American productivity growth in recent decades, despite extensive economic ref...
Analysis of new comparable series on output and employment between 1900 and 2000 for Argentina, Braz...
Most Latin American countries experienced their last peak in output per capita relative to the Unite...
Latin American economic history suggests that nothing is predetermined about the region's mixed...
I investigate the role of sectoral di¤erences in labor productivity and the process of structural tr...
Most Latin American countries experienced their last peak in output per capita relative to the Unite...
This article examines the e¤ects of sectorial shifts and structural transformation on the recent pro...
This article examines the e¤ects of sectorial shifts and structural transformation on the recent pro...
Due to widespread government intervention and import-substitution industrialization, there has been ...
Includes bibliographyThe 1980s and 1990s have been decades of instability and slow growth for most o...
This paper examines the aggregate productivity performance and discusses the economic growth experie...
The industrialization of developing countries has fundamentally transformed work, employment, and la...
Most Latin American countries experienced their last peak in output per capita relative to the Unite...
We investigate the role of sectorial differences in labor productivity and the process of structural...