Restuccia, Diego; Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhu, Xiaodong - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2003
reveals that high labor shares and low productivity in agriculture are mainly responsible for poor countries<92> current … the observed cross-country di<AE>erences in both the labor share and productivity in agriculture. Furthermore, our model … with agriculture can account for 89% of the observed aggregate labor productivity di<AE>erences across countries …