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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155014203321

Autore

Dias Daniel

Titolo

A Tale of Two Sectors : : Why is Misallocation Higher in Services than in Manufacturing? / / Daniel Dias, Christine Richmond, Carlos Robalo Marques

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2016

ISBN

9781475554069

1475554060

9781475554120

1475554125

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (50 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

RichmondChristine

Robalo MarquesCarlos

Disciplina

338.4

Soggetti

Service industries - Portugal

Manufacturing industries - Portugal

Macroeconomics

Industries: Manufacturing

Industries: Service

Production and Operations Management

Production

Cost

Capital and Total Factor Productivity

Capacity

Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models

Measurement of Economic Growth

Aggregate Productivity

Cross-Country Output Convergence

Industry Studies: Services: General

Macroeconomics: Production

Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General

Labor Economics: General

Manufacturing industries

Labour

income economics

Services sector

Total factor productivity

Productivity



Manufacturing

Labor

Economic sectors

Service industries

Industrial productivity

Labor economics

Income economics

Portugal

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Recent empirical studies document that the level of resource misallocation in the  service sector is significantly higher than in the manufacturing sector. We quantify the  importance of this difference and study its sources. Conservative estimates for Portugal  (2008) show that closing this gap, by reducing misallocation in the service sector to  manufacturing levels, would boost aggregate gross output by around 12 percent and  aggregate value added by around 31 percent. Differences in the effect and size of  productivity shocks explain most of the gap in misallocation between manufacturing  and services, while the remainder is explained by differences in firm productivity and  age distribution. We interpret these results as stemming mainly from higher output price  rigidity, greater labor adjustment costs and more informality in the service sector.