Zsofia Barany (SciencesPo) on "Engines of sectoral labor productivity growth"

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Speaker:  Zsofia Barany - SciencesPo
  Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 12:00 PM Polo Santa Marta, Via Cantarane 24, Sala Vaona (Room 1.59)
We study the origins of labor productivity growth and its differences across sectors. In our model, sectors employ workers of different occupations and various forms of capital, none of which are perfect substitutes, and technology evolves at the sector-factor cell level. Using the model we infer technologies from US data over 1960-2017. We find sector-specific routine labor augmenting technological change to be crucial. It is the most important driver of sectoral differences, and has a large and increasing contribution to aggregate labor productivity growth. Neither capital accumulation nor the occupational employment structure within sectors explains much of the sectoral differences.
Programme Director
Francesca Rossi
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Publication date
March 7, 2019

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