Structural Change Accounting with Labor Market Distortions

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Wenbiao Cai;
(2014)
This paper quantifies the relative importance of sectoral productivity and labor market distortions for structural change. I use a model in which labor productivity is the product of TFP and human capital in each sector, but distortions generate wedges in wage per effic... View more
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