Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of … developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to … high-productivity activities are a key driver of development. Our results show that since 1990 structural change has been …

endogenous firm entry, firm-level productivity, and sectoral employment shares. We find that observed measures of misallocation …

Average wage growth is closely related to aggregate productivity growth across countries and within countries over time …. The commonality of patterns across OECD countries suggests that common factors are at work. Are productivity …-biased technological change or other factors? To answer this, it is necessary to observe education-specific productivity growth. Cross …

We examine aggregate productivity differences across nations using cross-country firm-level data and a quantitative … model of production heterogeneity with distortions featuring operation decisions (selection) and productivity …-level productivity, mostly resulting from the higher prevalence of unproductive firms. Quantitatively, measured cross-country differences …

of climate change on sectoral reallocation and aggregate productivity. First, I use firm-level data from a wide range of … countries to estimate the effect of temperature on productivity in manufacturing and services. Estimates suggest that extreme … heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to …

of two terms: the effective number of researchers and their research productivity. We present a wide range of evidence … productivity is declining sharply. A good example is Moore's Law. The number of researchers required today to achieve the famous … increases in research effort that offset its declining productivity …

recent robust growth in Aggregate Labor Productivity (ALP) across twenty-five countries is due to lower barriers to input … reallocation. They find weak gains from measured reallocation and strong within-plant productivity gains. We show these findings … product of labor and changes in OL as a proxy for changes in plant-level productivity. We provide simple examples to show that …