that synergies among skilled (technical) labor, computers, and machinery capital have productivity- and skilled wage …-enhancing effects that could contribute to productivity convergence of developing toward developed countries, even with their differing …

Cross-country labor productivity differences are larger in agriculture than in non-agriculture. We propose a new … explanation for these patterns in which the self-selection of heterogeneous workers determines sector productivity. We formalize … agriculture sector in poor countries. When parameterized, the model predicts that agriculture productivity differences are twice …

-economic development. In the empirical part, we use a cross-country panel data, for 83 economies, which are derived from World Development … Indicators 2012 database International Monetary Fund World Economic Outlook Database April 2013. The time coverage is set for …

We examine the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in middle-income countries based on cross …

Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce …

, costly adoption and spillovers from the world technology frontier. Despite its parsimonious parametrization, our empirical … ; Distance to Frontier ; Inappropriate Technologies ; Skill-biased Technical Change ; Productivity ; TFP differences …

, costly adoption and spillovers from the world technology frontier. Despite its parsimonious parametrization, our empirical …

This paper examines the potential for sector-specific productivity growth, human capital, credit markets, and …