Productivity Differences

Daron Acemoglu and Fabrizio Zilibotti ()

Working Papers from Stockholm - International Economic Studies

Abstract: Many technologies used by the LDCs (less developed countries) are developed in the OECD economies, and as such, are designed to make optimal use of the skills of these richer countries' workforces. Due to differences in the supply of skills, some of the tasks performed by skilled workers in the OECD economies will be carried out by unskilled workers in the LDCs. Since the technologies in these tasks are designed to be used by skill workers, productivity in the LDCs will be low.

Keywords: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; TECHNOLOGY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F43 O14 O34 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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