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We estimate productivities at the sector level for 72 countries and 5 decades, and examine how they evolve over time in both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew systematically faster in sectors that were initially...
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1970 -- the income gap between the US and the sending country, the education gap between the US and the sending country …
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This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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used to improve the study and function of cities. We first show how Google Street View images can be used to predict income …
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smaller production and losses of workers. On the demand side, global buyers were not able to shift sourcing to Kenyan …
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costs of changing production as well as substantial costs of being away from target inventory, the latter being a function … characteristics of the demand process. In the automobile industry, inventory behavior is destabilizing: the variance of production is …
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-level production and input factor choices are affected by payroll taxes …
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The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on … Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with … of input use. The equilibrium organization of production and the network structure of input-output linkages arise …
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production. At the same time United States experienced a "transportation revolution", a key component of which was the building …
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This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to … role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early development. Domestic pig iron production is found to be highly … sensitive to changes in import prices. Although import price fluctuations had a much greater impact on U.S. production than …
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