Labor productivity, capital accumulation, and aggregate efficiency across countries: Some stylized facts
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Keywords
labor productivity; capital accumulation; aggregate efficiency; stylized facts;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
- O4 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
- O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2017-11-19 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-MAC-2017-11-19 (Macroeconomics)
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