productivity (TFP). In this article, we summarize a recent literature - and the articles in this special issue on misallocation and … productivity - that focus on the reallocation of factors across heterogeneous production units as an important source of measured …

assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy differences across countries in explaining … schooling in poor than in rich countries consistent with the data. These results highlight the importance of productivity and … development in education, emphasizing the crucial role of productivity improvements in poor countries relative to often …

labor supply margin to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy in explaining educational … productivity. …

use the model to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy differences across countries in …

mobility enhances the productivity of firms located near highly productive firms. Using a unique dataset combining Social … significantly increases the productivity of other firms. To address identification threats arising from both contemporaneous and … future unobservable firm-level productivity shocks correlated with hiring, I use control function methods drawn from the …

productivity investment. The model connects small operational scales to the prevalence in poor countries of correlated distortions … (the elasticity between wedges and establishment productivity). The model also rationalizes the finding in poor countries … of low establishment-level productivity and low aggregate productivity investment. A calibrated version of the model …

supply to quantitatively assess the contribution of exogenous variations in productivity (wage) and life expectancy in …

productivity differences. Poor countries have low labour productivity in agriculture relative to other sectors, yet predominantly … international trade to: (1) measure sectoral productivity and trade costs across countries; and (2) quantify the impact of low poor …-country food imports on international income and productivity gaps. Specifically, I expand on Yi and Zhang [2010] and modify an …

A decomposition of aggregate labor productivity based on internationally comparable data from FAO and Penn World Tables … reveals that high labor shares and low productivity in agriculture are mainly responsible for poor countries<92> current … factor productivity (TFP) and barriers to using modern intermediate inputs in agricultural production can largely account for …

(larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity) and firm selection (larger cities toughen competition allowing … selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in larger cities left truncates the productivity … agglomeration and firm selection using French establishment level data and a new quantile approach. Spatial productivity differences …