This paper investigates the evolution of the productive structure around the world and the role it plays in the … structure through the Economic Complexity Index. Our results indicate that income inequality at the world level is not linearly …

examines the implications of heterogeneity in construction productivity on cross-country income disparity. We estimate the 10 …:1 spread in construction productivity among 145 countries in 2005 as a factor of 61.7-fold. Based on a general equilibrium … construction productivity gap is eliminated. Sectoral characterization of the aggregate effect of a change in construction …

known as international unbundling of production. We consider a world economy where countries only differ in their … productivity and consume final good varieties from all country origins. Each variety is produced using a bundle of intermediate … this change in inequality is U-shaped in the productivity of the country. The reason is that high-productivity countries …

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 …

-sector employment, lift the marginal productivity of capital in higher technology industries and thus increase the rate of interest and …