that slow growth in agricultural productivity can substantially delay the development process and result in significant … differences in per capita incomes. Some of our results indicate that low agricultural productivity delayed the beginning of the … can be accelerated, however, by increasing productivity in the non-agricultural sector. In fact, in the long run, it is …

This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American … paper finds that unions have positive, but mostly small, effects on productivity, with the exception of Argentina, with a … productivity effects barely offset higher union compensation, and that unions are negatively related to investment in capital and R …