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Productivity Growth, Technological Convergence, RandD, Trade, and Labor Markets: Evidence From the French Manufacturing Sector
Tehmina S. Khan
Total factor productivity (TFP) of 14 manufacturing sectors in France has kept up with that of the United States during 1980-2002 and remained well above that of the United Kingdom. Estimates using a dynamic panel equilibrium correction model indicate that sectors further behind the technological frontier experience faster productivity growth and that spending on research and development and trade with technologically advanced economies positively influences TFP growth, but not the speed of convergence. Conversely, TFP growth is negatively related to some key labor market variables, namely the replacement ratio and the ratio of the minimum wage to the median wage.
Keywords:
WP; replacement ratio; capital stock; Economic growth; Total factor productivity (TFP); Research and Development (R&D); Labor market institutions; Trade; Technological convergence; TFP level; TFP estimate; TFP easgrowth; TFP relative; TFP growth in the United States; Total factor productivity; Productivity; Labor markets; Technology transfer; Capacity utilization; Europe
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International Trade and Productivity Growth: Exploring the Sectoral Effects for Developing Countries
Ehsan U. Choudhri
and
Ms. Dalia S Hakura
The paper estimates an empirical relation based on Krugman’s ‘technological gap’ model to explore the influence of the pattern of international trade and production on the overall productivity growth of a developing country. A key result is that increased import competition in medium-growth (but not in low- or high-growth) manufacturing sectors enhances overall productivity growth. The authors also find that a production-share weighted average of (technological leaders’) sectoral productivity growth rates has a significant effect on the rate of aggregate productivity growth.
Keywords:
WP; Productivity Growth; Trade Liberalization; Technological Gap; TFP growth rate; trade variable; trade effect; trade ratio; technology lag; s TFP growth; gap in a sector; growth performance; trade index; productivity gap; Productivity; Total factor productivity; Imports; Technology transfer; East Asia; Middle East; North Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; South Asia
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The Role of Inter- and Intraindustry Trade in Technology Diffusion
Ms. Dalia S Hakura
and
Ms. Florence Jaumotte
Research shows that international trade is an important channel for the transfer of technology. Building on this evidence, this paper examines the effects of inter- and intraindustry trade on technology transfer. The paper develops and tests the hypothesis that intraindustry trade stimulates more technology transfer than interindustry trade because countries are likely to absorb foreign technologies more easily when their imports are from the same sectors as their production and export sectors. The results of empirical tests for 87 countries during 1970–93 support this hypothesis.
Keywords:
WP; industry trade; IIT index; significance level; Technology spillovers; Intraindustry Trade; Interindustry Trade; trade sector; trade index; sectors to TFP gap; Total factor productivity; Imports; Technology transfer; Exports; Sub-Saharan Africa; East Asia; South Asia; Middle East; North Africa