markets have in creating variation in aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). Development accounting research has shown … what creates these differences in TFP in the first place. The dual economy model suggests that aggregate productivity is … depressed by inefficient factor markets that allocate too many factors to low productivity work in agriculture. Data show wide …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …

study how the earnings distribution changes with distortions that penalize high-productivity firms and frictions that reduce … much firms are willing to pay workers, how well high-skill workers are matched with high-productivity firms, and how much …