We assess the extent and cost of misallocation in agriculture in less-developed countries comparing the analysis at the …

value of family labor, 20% below their outside option in non-agriculture …

Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development … Development Centre and build a new dataset of comparable labor productivity levels in agriculture and manufacturing for 64 mostly …

Agriculture dominated the economy of eighteenth-century British America, and the pace of agricultural productivity …

agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural …

Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor … productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct … dramatically relative to labor prices; concurrently, capital and intermediate input use in agriculture increases by a factor of 300 …

administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and … find that relocation increases men's earnings more than women's, with strikingly similar patterns in Germany and Sweden … using variation in norms within Germany. We then develop and estimate a model of household decision-making in which …

.S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs …

Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on … nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that …