TY - BOOK ID - 135556253 TI - Sectoral Decomposition of Convergence in Labor Productivity : A Re-Examination from a New Dataset AU - Dieppe, Alistair. AU - Matsuoka, Hideaki. PY - 2021 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Agricultural Productivity KW - Agricultural Sector Economics KW - Agriculture KW - Convergence KW - Labor Markets KW - Labor Productivity KW - New Sectoral Database KW - Rural Development KW - Rural Labor Markets KW - Sector Reallocation KW - Shift-Share Decomposition KW - Social Protections and Labor UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135556253 AB - This paper investigates how the sector-specific source or the changing sectoral composition of labor productivity has contributed to aggregate beta convergence, using a newly constructed eight-sector database. The main findings are twofold. First, both within and sectoral reallocation have become important drivers of aggregate convergence in labor productivity. Second, agricultural productivity growth has been a significant contributor to aggregate convergence, whereas catch-up in other sectors has only contributed a small amount to convergence. The strong growth of the agriculture sector has been the most important driver of aggregate productivity convergence even though agricultural productivity itself in low-income countries is weakly converging to that in advanced economies. ER -