The Role of Structural Change in European Regional Productivity Growth
作者研究了欧洲区域生产率增长中结构变化的作用。传统文献认为跨部门结构变化对总体生产率增长影响甚微，作者利用1980-2007年181个欧洲区域的数据，采用动态偏离份额法（一种分解生产率增长的统计方法）重新检验这一观点。结果发现，跨部门结构变化的影响远非微不足道，且对处于生产率分布较高十分位的区域影响更强。此外，当区域处于“高且改善”或“低且恶化”状态时，结构变化对增长的促进作用尤为显著。这些结论重新肯定了结构变化在增长和趋同中的重要性。
O’Leary E. and Webber D. J. The role of structural change in European regional productivity growth, Regional Studies. Recent literature suggests that inter-sectoral structural change has a negligible impact on aggregate productivity growth. Through the application of dynamic shift–share methods, this paper presents a re-examination of this perspective using data for 181 European regions from 1980 to 2007. Results suggest that the effect of the inter-sectoral component is far from negligible and is substantially stronger for those regions towards the higher deciles of the distribution. Moreover, its effects appear to be particularly growth enhancing when the region is either ‘high and improving’ or ‘low and deteriorating’. These results rehabilitate the importance of structural change for growth and convergence.