Distribution and productivity growth: an empirical exercise applied to selected Latin American countries

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Cedeplar
Available from: 
October 2018
Paper author(s): 
Douglas Alcantara Alencar
Frederico Gonzaga Jayme Jr
Gustavo Britto
Claudio Puty
Topic: 
Microeconomics - Competition - Productivity
Year: 
2018

In this article we analyze, from a Latin American structuralist perspective, whether productivity growth is affected by growth in income and employment. In order to test our hypothesis, we have chosen a sample of Latin American countries that represent 86% of the region’s gross domestic product. We perform an econometric test of the so-called Kaldor-Verdoon parameter and the employment growth parameter for the selected countries.

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