We document several new facts regarding urbanization and structural change in developing countries and develop a model that can account for them. Most developing countries follow a standard pattern: urbanization is a by-product of either "push" from agricultural productivity growth or a "pull"...

There is a negative mean-dispersion relationship between the log of mean annual hours in an occupation and the standard deviation of log annual hours in that occupation. We document this pattern using data from the 1976-2011 Current Population Survey (CPS) and various Survey of Income and...

This paper examines the role of the market for high-skilled labor in explaining variation in the levels and dynamics of the service share, home production time, and market labor across countries. We establish and extend key facts for a cross-section of countries. First, growth in the total share...