Affiliation:
1. The World Bank 1818 H Street NW Washington, DC 20433 aabdurrahman@worldbank.org
2. The World Bank 52-53 Jalan Jenderal Sudirman Jakarta 12190, Indonesia aschmillen@worldbank.org
Abstract
AbstractUsing data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia from 1987 to 2018 and decompositions that take account of both the static and dynamic efficiency gains from labor reallocation, this study documents that Malaysia has undergone structural transformation from an agriculture-driven to a services-driven economy. In contrast to common perceptions, however, the country's impressive growth in output per capita over the last three decades can largely be attributed not to its structural transformation but instead to sustained growth in within-sector labor productivity. At 3 percent, the contribution of between-sector reallocation of labor to output per capita growth has been relatively low.
Subject
Political Science and International Relations,Economics and Econometrics,Finance
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