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100			_aHendricks, Lutz and Schoellman, Todd _939153
245			_aSkilled labor productivity and cross-country income differences
260			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
300			_a15(1), Jan, 2023: p.240-268
520			_aThis paper revisits the question of how allowing for imperfect substitution among workers with different skill levels affects the results of development accounting. We consider a range of models that nest the approaches in the literature and calibrate them to a common set of moments, including particularly evidence on the wage gains of migrants. We obtain two main results. First, human capital accounts for between one-half and three-fourths of cross-country income gaps. Second, human capital accounts for only modest variation in the relative productivity of skilled versus unskilled labor.- Reproduced
773			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
906			_aLABOURS
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