investment in job training than larger firms. Therefore, our findings call for caution when designing pro-SME policies fostering …

The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general …-income countries have higher frictions in non-agricultural industries. By setting frictions to US levels, agricultural labor …

experiments reveal that the geography of skills matters for global inequality. Low access to education and sectoral misallocation …This paper analyzes the factors underlying the evolution of the worldwide distribution of skills and their implications … for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education …

little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we … develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses …

little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we … develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses …

Labor productivity is an important determinant of the wealth of national economies and standards of living, as its … countries, by decomposing labor productivity growth into multifactor productivity (MFP) growth and capital deepening. The four … economies (CMEs); 2) physical capital investment- and labor productivity growth-dominant liberal market economies; 3 …

A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and … problems and illustrates how data and statistical methods can be used to deal with some of them. The measures of labor … productivity and the proxies specified for schooling and adult health are first discussed, and then the functional relationships …

A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and …

This paper documents that resource reallocation across firms is an important mechanism through which creditor rights … strong creditor protection for aircraft finance. After this reform, country-level productivity in the aviation sector …

consequences of these transformations on firm's productivity, using granular data on firms financial and ownership structure as … major concern from a productivity standpoint: firms displaying higher institutional ownership tend to have higher … productivity levels and growth rates compared to their peers, though the positive relationship tends to vanish when institutional …