The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general … to US levels, agricultural labor productivity increases by 4.3-7.6 percent, nonagricultural labor productivity decreases …

In this paper we show that motherhood triggers changes in the allocation of talent in the labor market besides the well … into self-employment. Overall, our results suggest relevant changes in the allocation of talent caused by gender … differences in nonmarket responsibilities that can have sizable impacts on aggregate market productivity. We also show that the …

agriculture, implying that average productivity in agriculture increases as the agricultural employment share decreases. We … selection as a root cause of the agricultural productivity gap. …

, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …

important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

. It explicitly addresses the question of what workers newly experience in the richer economy (higher productivity), what … accounting literature, productivity differences in favor of the richer economy, due to differences in TFP and in physical capital …

skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences …