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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2023
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
EGC Discussion Papers No. 1097
Verlag: 
Yale University, Economic Growth Center, New Haven, CT
Zusammenfassung: 
Structural transformation in most currently developing countries takes the form of a rapid rise in services but limited industrialization. In this paper, we propose a new methodology to structurally estimate productivity growth in service industries that circumvents the notorious difficulties in measuring quality improvements. In our theory, the expansion of the service sector is both a consequence-due to income effects-and a cause- due to productivity growth- of the development process. We estimate the model using Indian household data. We find that productivity growth in non-tradable consumer services such as retail, restaurants, or residential real estate, was an important driver of structural transformation and rising living standards between 1987 and 2011. However, the welfare gains were heavily skewed toward high-income urban dwellers.
Schlagwörter: 
productivity development
service sector
economic growth
structural change
India
Dokumentart: 
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