Cover -- Contents -- Abstract -- I. Introduction and Motivation -- II. Growth Patterns in NREs -- A. Defining "Resource-Led" Growth -- B. Muted Sectoral Dynamics -- C. Traditional Services Dominate -- III. Labor Productivity Growth -- IV. Export Transformation -- A. Composition and...

We examine the direct impact of idiosyncratic match quality on entry wages and job mobility using unique data on worker talents matched to job-indicators and individual wages. Tenured workers are clustered in jobs with high job-specific returns to their types of talents. We therefore measure...

This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in order to inform modelling of the long-run behavior of comparative advantage. The starting point for our analysis is two strong empirical regularities in international trade that have previously been...

Over the last millennium, the clan and the corporation have been the loci of cooperation in China and Europe respectively. This paper examines - analytically and historically - the cultural and institutional co-evolution that led to this bifurcation. We highlight that groups with which...

We examine the direct impact of idiosyncratic match quality on entry wages and job mobility using unique data on worker talents matched to job-indicators and individual wages. Tenured workers are clustered in jobs with high job-specific returns to their types of talents. We therefore measure...

In an influential paper entitled David Ricardo's Discovery of Comparative Advantageʺ, which was published in HOPE (Vol. 34, 2002), Roy J. Ruffin attempted to reconstruct the circumstances of Ricardo's discovery of the law of comparative advantage. Ruffin's article has inspired a number of...