Structural Reforms and Labor Reallocation : A Cross-Country Analysis /

Institutional and market frictions impose costs on the reallocation of labor from low to high productivity sectors, leading to suboptimal allocations and a loss in aggregate labor productivity. Using cross-country sector-level data, we use a dynamic panel error correction model to compute the speed...

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Autore principale: ElFayoumi, Khalid
Altri autori: Auclair, Gregory, Nadeem, Sanaa, Ndoye, Anta
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/064
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF