02045cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF015059 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484392140 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Mano, Rui. The Level of Productivity in Traded and Non-Traded Sectors for a Large Panel of Countries / Rui Mano, Marola Castillo. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015. 1 online resource (49 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper explains in detail the construction of series for productivity in the traded and nontraded sectors for a panel of 56 countries spanning 1989-2012. The level of productivity in each sector is defined as real value added per worker in constant 2005 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) U.S. dollars. To construct these series, we collect industry-level data from several sources, and classify individual industries as traded/non-traded using their ratio of exports to value added. Finally, we aggregate the industry data up to a traded sector and a non-traded sector, accordingly. This new dataset has two main advantages relative to existing datasets: (i) it defines more finely the traded/non-traded sectors, by drawing on much more disaggregated industry source data; and (ii) it allows for meaningful comparisons of the level of productivity across countries/sectors because sectoral productivity is adjusted by its own price level. Mode of access: Internet Castillo, Marola. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/048 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2015/048/001.2015.issue-048-en.xml IMF e-Library