01831cas a2200325 a 4500 AALejournalIMF017939 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484319277 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Ando, Sakai. Indexing Structural Distortion : Sectoral Productivity, Structural Change and Growth / Sakai Ando, Koffie Ben Nassar. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017. 1 online resource (48 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 proposes a new index of sectoral labor distortion using employment and valueadded shares. We show that this index is highly correlated with growth both crosssectionally and over time. We also use it to compare the degree of distortion among countries and identify sectors where the potential payoffs in terms of growth from reforms could be large. The regression analysis in the paper shows that education and various structural reforms have potential to improve the efficiency of sectoral labor allocation. Mode of access: Internet Growth imf Index imf Regression Analysis imf Sectoral Distortion imf WP imf Russian Federation imf Ben Nassar, Koffie. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/205 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2017/205/001.2017.issue-205-en.xml IMF e-Library