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We use firm-level data for 15 countries and 13 manufacturing sectors to estimate firm-level productivity parameters and … to establish representative country-sector-specific empirical productivity distributions. We use these distributions … of technology in shaping international trade flows. We find that, on average, absolute advantage measured as productivity …
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and their productivity. Recent work suggests that these calculations should treat workers of different skill levels as … imperfect substitutes. However, under this approach, it has been challenging to compute skill-specific productivity levels for a … data set on labor force composition to construct measures of productivity for workers in three distinct skill categories …
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determinant of the distribution of world population and a prime cause of the Great Divergence in income per capita across … countries in the last two centuries. The theory suggests that international trade affected the evolution of economies … comparative advantage generates an important new insight regarding the distribution of the gains from trade. The theory suggests …
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This research argues that the differential effect of international trade on the demand for human capital across countries has been a major determinant of the distribution of income and population across the globe. In developed countries the gains from trade have been directed towards investment...
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Using data from patents, citations, inter-sectoral sales and customs, we examine the international diffusion of technology through imports of sectoral knowledge and production inputs. We construct measures of the flow of technology embodied in imports. These measures are weighted by...
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxian" zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zoneʺ where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxianʺ zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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We analyze recent contributions to growth theory based on the model of expanding variety of Romer (1990). In the first … framework to the analysis of international technology diffusion, trade, cross-country productivity differences, financial …
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We analyze recent contributions to growth theory based on the model of expanding variety of Romer [Romer, P. (1990 … international technology diffusion, trade, cross-country productivity differences, financial development and fluctuations. In many …
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, 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 …
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