The Role of the Structural Transformation in Aggregate Productivity

By Margarida Duarte, Diego Restuccia. 2010

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On the spatial economic impact of global warming (2015, neutral): “From Duarte and Restuccia (2010) we therefore simply 2”
The financial resource curse (2013, neutral): “28 In reality, the development process is characterized by a progressive shift of employment toward services, a sector producing mainly non-tradable goods (Duarte and Restuccia, 2010).”
The role of trade in structural transformation (2010, neutral): “…in economic development using a two-sector growth model with learning by doing in the manufacturing sector; the 9Other important papers in this literature are Buera and Kaboski (2008), Buera and Kaboski (2009a), Duarte and Restuccia (2010), Echevarria (1997), Laitner (2000), Vourvachaki (2009).”
Africa’s Evolving Employment Trends (2018, background): “Structural transformation, which can be defined as the reallocation of economic activity away from less productive sectors of the economy to more productive ones, has long been considered a fundamental driver of economic development (Barrett, Carter, & Timmer, 2010; Duarte & Restuccia, 2010).”
Determinants of Structural Change (2013, methodology): “…my model-based decompositions indicate that even for Korea sector-biased productivity growth and nonhomothetic preferences are quantitatively more important than trade as drivers of structural change.7 The calibration strategy of this paper can be seen as building on Duarte and Restuccia (2010).”
Structural Change Out of Agriculture: Labor Push Versus Labor Pull (2011, result): “(2001) and Duarte and Restuccia (2010). In Appendix B, we introduce a generalized CES specification that yields identical results when μ = 0.”
Productivity and resource misallocation in Latin America1) (2012, background): “…in perspective it is useful to recall that the typical Latin American country’s TFP is on the order of 55 percent that of the United 11 States, yet Duarte and Restuccia (2010) estimate that across countries, productivity gaps are lower in manufacturing than across other sectors or in aggregate…”
The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies: A Structural-Change Perspective (2017, positive): “This is a serious issue and for the purposes of this paper, we rely on work by Duarte and Restuccia (2010) who show that in a sample of 29 developed and developing countries the correlation between hours worked and employment shares is close to one and Gollin, Lagakos, and Waugh (2014) who show…”
A Quantitative Analysis of China's Structural Transformation (2006, background): “(2001), Rogerson (2008) and Duarte and Restuccia (2010). On the structural l. (2008), and Song et al.”
The Changing Structure of Africa's Economies (2017, methodology): “These patterns are consistent with those documented by Duarte and Restuccia (2010) and Herrendorf, Rogerson, and Valentinyi (2014) for the rest of the world.”
Urbanization with and without industrialization (2015, background): “Schultz (1953),Matsuyama (1992), Caselli and Coleman II (2001), Gollin et al. (2002) and Michaels et al.”
Misallocation, Establishment Size, and Productivity (2017, neutral): “We then consider how the extent of correlated distortions affects the number of firms, investment, firm growth, and aggregate 25See for instance Duarte and Restuccia (2010) and Herrendorf et al. (2014) for a characterization of differences and changes in the sectoral structure of the economy across…”