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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主要作者: Mourmouras, Alex
其他作者: Rangazas, Peter
格式: 雜誌
語言:English
出版: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
叢編:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/105
在線閱讀:Full text available on IMF