scholarly journals The contribution of immigration from Ukraine to economic growth in Poland

Author(s):  
Paweł Strzelecki ◽  
Jakub Growiec ◽  
Robert Wyszyński

AbstractFrom 2014 onwards Poland witnessed an unprecedented inflow of immigrant workers from Ukraine. Coupled with strong labour demand, this surge in labour supply provided a major contribution to Poland’s economic growth. However, due to problems with capturing immigration in Labour Force Survey data this contribution has remained hitherto largely unaccounted in official data. This paper uses a range of alternative official data sources to estimate the actual number of immigrants, and survey data on migrant characteristics, collected in four Polish cities, to estimate the effective labour supply of Ukrainian immigrants in terms of productivity-adjusted hours worked. The authors find that the arrival of Ukrainian workers was increasing the effective labour supply in Poland in 2013–2018 by 0.8% per annum. Imputing this additional labour supply in a growth accounting exercise they find that the (previously unaccounted) contribution of Ukrainian workers amounted to about 0.5 pp. per annum, i.e., about 13% of Poland’s GDP growth in 2013–2018. The same figure should be subtracted from the residual contribution of total factor productivity growth, suggesting that recent growth in Poland has been in fact much more labour-intensive than previously interpreted.

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (Special Edition) ◽  
pp. 33-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashid Amjad ◽  
Namra Awais

This paper reviews Pakistan’s productivity performance over the last 35 years (1980–2015) and identifies factors that help explain the declining trend in labor productivity and total factor productivity (TFP), both of which could have served as major drivers of productivity growth – as happened in East Asia and more recently in India. A key finding is that the maximum TFP gains and their contribution to economic growth are realized during periods of high-output growth. The lack of sustained growth and low and declining levels of investment appear to be the most important causes of the low contribution of TFP to productivity growth, which has now reached levels that should be of major concern to policymakers vis-à-vis Pakistan’s growth prospects.


2019 ◽  
pp. 1-43
Author(s):  
Klaus Gründler

This paper examines the mechanisms that determine the “vanishing effect of finance” on economic growth found in recent studies. Based on both current (171 countries, 1960–2014) and historical (21 OECD countries, 1870–2009) data, the results show that financial development promotes growth in poorer countries by increasing education and investment, and by decreasing fertility. The relevance of these transmission channels declines when countries become richer. The growth effect of the financial sector in high-income countries primarily depends on new ideas and potentials for innovation projects. Consequently, the major decline in factor productivity growth since the early 2000s has contributed to the reduction in the financial sector’s average effect on growth.


2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas W. Jamison ◽  
Christina Jansen

This paper presents the economic framework supporting the conclusion that US federal programmes, such as the Bayh–Dole Act of 1980, which increase the pay-off from research and development funding (R&D) can be effective agents of economic growth. A review of the literature in this field provides evidence that links investment in research to economic growth. By modifying the traditional Cobb–Douglas production function to include a research and development input, in addition to the capital and labour input, this study defines how multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth is controlled by the interaction of R&D and its commercialization. The combined contribution to MFP growth is defined as the product of the elasticity of output for R&D and the rate of growth of the R&D input. Evidence supporting the importance of the elasticity component for multi-factor productivity growth is presented, and the study then concludes that programmes to increase the elasticity of output for R&D – what is referred to as increasing the pay-off from R&D – may be an effective means of realizing a larger return on the investment in R&D.


1995 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. F. R. Crafts

The British Industrial Revolution is reviewed in the light of recent developments in modeling economic growth. It is argued that ”endogenous innovation” models may be useful in this context particularly for understanding why total factor productivity growth rose only slowly. ”Macroinventions” were central to economic development in this period, however, and these are best seen as exogenous technological shocks. Although new growth theorists would easily identify higher growth potential in eighteenth-century Britain than in France, explaining the timing of the acceleration in growth remains elusive. A research agenda to develop further insights from new growth ideas is proposed.


2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-68
Author(s):  
Arūnas Pocius

This article aims to analyze the situation and the development of the labor supply in Lithuania. Much attention ispaid to possibilities of competencies identification. The analysis was carried out by using Education indicators of Lithuanianpopulation according to ISCED and classification of Lithuanian Education provided by Statistics Lithuania. Also analysis ofLithuanian labour force (employment survey) data were used. The indicators used in the article include labour supply (labourresources) distribution by education and its separate areas. A key priority of the article is the evaluation of changes in supply. Theanalysis is based on the data of labour force (employment) survey of Statistics Lithuania and its information published aboutspecialists prepared in country educational institutions.


Author(s):  
Stephen N. Broadberry ◽  
Claire Giordano ◽  
Francesco Zollino

Italy's economic growth over its 150 years of unified history did not occur at a steady pace, nor was it balanced across sectors. Relying on an entirely new input (labor and capital) database, this chapter evaluates the different labor productivity growth trends within the Italian economy's sectors, as well as the contribution of structural change to productivity growth. Italy's performance is then set in an international context: a comparison of sectoral labor productivity growth rates and levels within a selected sample of countries (United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Japan, India) allows us to better time, quantify, and gauge the causes of Italy's catching-up process and subsequent more recent slowdown. Finally, the paper analyzes the proximate sources of Italy's growth, relative to the other countries, in a standard growth accounting framework, in an attempt also to disentangle the contribution of both total factor productivity growth and capital deepening to the country's labor productivity dynamics.


2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mien Askinatin

Total Factor Productivity Growth (TFPG) is an approach to determine the role of technology progress on economic growth. The calculation of TFPG in this study is use the accounting growth method. Based on data in 1984-2007, TFPG of DKI Jakarta seen coincides with TFPG of Indonesia graphically. This is reinforced by the correlation coefficient value of 87.03 between them. DKI Jakarta provincial economy largely sustained by capital stock which is supported by the growth of TFP. For an accelerated economic growth throughsupport for a strong technology growth, required an atmosphere of economic, social and political stability in an effort to avoid a crisis as happened in 1998.


1997 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 99-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Oulton

This paper argues that the greater part of economic growth can be accounted for by the accumulation of human and physical capital. The role of externalities is relatively small. This view is defended by reviewing the most sophisticated growth accounting studies and also by presenting some new evidence on the growth of total factor productivity in 53 countries over the period 1965 to 1990.


2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1850170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Mulugetta ◽  
Yuko Mulugetta

This study examines labor and capital service inputs as well as multi-factor productivity growth in Japan and compares results to eight other industrial nations using OECD's productivity data from 1985 to 2007. The study reveals that since 1991 Japan's economic growth has been negatively measured by all three discriminant functions identified.


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