Diego Restuccia

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors formulate a version of the growth model in which production is carried out by heterogeneous establishments and calibrate it to US data, and argue that differences in the allocation of resources across establishments that differ in productivity may be an important factor in accounting for cross-country differences in output per capita.

TL;DR: In this article, a decomposition of aggregate labor productivity based on internationally comparable data reveals that a high share of employment and low labor productivity in agriculture are mainly responsible for low aggregate productivity in poor countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the role of sectoral differences in labor productivity in explaining the process of structural transformation and the time path of aggregate productivity across countries, and find that productivity catch-up in industry explains about 50 percent of the gains in aggregate productivity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize a recent literature that focuses on the reallocation of factors across heterogeneous production units as an important source of measured TFP differences across countries and conclude that a large portion of differences in output per capita across countries is explained by differences in total factor productivity.