Wage Gaps and Development : Lessons from U.S. History /

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 1800 to 2000. We build a quantitative general equilibrium mo...

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מחבר ראשי: Mourmouras, Alex
מחברים אחרים: Rangazas, Peter
פורמט: כתב-עת
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
סדרה:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/105
גישה מקוונת:Full text available on IMF