This paper shows that different labor market policies can lead to differences in technology across sectors in a model of labor saving technologies. Labor market regulations reduce the skill premium and as a result, if technologies are labor saving, countries with more stringent labor regulation,...

This paper shows that different labor market policies can lead to differences in technology across sectors in a model of labor saving technologies. Labor market regulations reduce the skill premium and as a result, if technologies are labor saving, countries with more stringent labor regulation,...

This paper examines the possibility that a country might follow the global technology frontier partially instead of fully. We develop an empirical test of this possibility, which measures by how much a country follows the frontier. The test shows that indeed most countries do not follow the...