During the course of development, wages and labor productivity are much higher in the nonfarm sectors of the economy … than in agriculture. In this paper, we examine the sources and consequences of wage and productivity gaps in the U.S. from … non-farm labor productivity growth, schooling, and fertility in the U.S. The family farm emerges as an important …

countries. He finds that Ireland has experienced a long-term productivity boom over the last 25 years and that the recent …The economic success story of the 1990s has been Ireland, with GDP per capita nearly doubling over the decade. In this … acceleration in per capita GDP reflects an acceleration in employment rate growth, not in productivity growth. The main policy …