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New Evidence on Sectoral Labor Productivity : Implications for Industrialization and Development

Herrendorf, Berthold; Rogerson, Richard Donald; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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 …

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Two Blades of Grass : The Impact of the Green Revolution

Gollin, Douglas - 2018

We examine the economic impact of high-yielding crop varieties (HYVs) in developing countries 1960-2000. We use time variation in the development and diffusion of HYVs of 10 major crops, spatial variation in agro-climatically suitability for growing them, and a differences-in-differences...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452976

Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata

Hicks, Joan Hamory - 2017

Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and nonagricultural sectors in low-income countries, as well as between workers in rural and urban areas. Most estimates are based on national accounts or repeated cross-sections of micro-survey data, and as...

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The Agricultural Productivity Gap

Gollin, Douglas - 2013

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

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The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture

Boppart, Timo; Kiernan, Patrick; Krusell, Per; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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 …

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Inappropriate Pooling of Wealthy and Poor Countries in Empirical FDI Studies

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2004

This paper examines the question of whether less-developed countries' (LDCs') experiences with foreign direct investment (FDI) systematically different from those of developed countries (DCs). We do this by examining three types of empirical FDI studies that typically do not distinguish between...

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The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries

Brown, Drusilla K. - 2003

This paper assesses the evidence regarding the effects of multinational production on wages and working conditions in developing countries. It is motivated by recent controversies concerning whether multinational firms in developing countries exploit workers by paying low wages and subjecting...

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Contracts, Intellectual Property Rights, and Multinational Investment in Developing Countries

Markusen, James R. - 1998

The institution and enforcement of property rights and contracts have been an important policy issue for the developing countries, the transition economies, and the developed countries in the 1990s. This has led to the development of a literature on technology transfer and how property rights...

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Internationalized Production in Developed and Developing Countries and in Industry Sectors

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1998

Internationalized production, that is, production in a country controlled by firms based in another country, grew from about 4.5% of world output in 1970 to over 7% in 1995. The importance of internationalized output fell substantially in developing countries until around 1990 but has been been...

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Vertical Multinationals and Host-Country Characteristics

Zhang, Kevin H. - 1997

The literature on multinationals and developing countries has examined the causality" running from direct investment to changes in country characteristics (wages skills, etc.) and also the opposite direction of causality, from existing country characteristics to" inward direct investment. This...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472611

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