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 … to US levels, agricultural labor productivity increases by 4.3-7.6 percent, nonagricultural labor productivity decreases …

In this paper we show that motherhood triggers changes in the allocation of talent in the labor market besides the well … into self-employment. Overall, our results suggest relevant changes in the allocation of talent caused by gender … differences in nonmarket responsibilities that can have sizable impacts on aggregate market productivity. We also show that the …

higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines …

agriculture, implying that average productivity in agriculture increases as the agricultural employment share decreases. We … selection as a root cause of the agricultural productivity gap. …

, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

We study the aggregate productivity effects of firm-level financial frictions. Credit constraints affect not only …-invest in schooling. Frictions lower aggregate productivity because talent is misallocated across occupations, and capital … responses. We find that these effects combined account for about 1/5 of the U.S.-India aggregate productivity difference …