Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/1049
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 895
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
We estimate the relative roles of factor inputs and productivity in explaining the level of economic development, which is measured as output per worker. For a large sample of countries, we show that alternative identifying productivity assumptions and alternative measures of human capital have a large impact on the relative weights of factor inputs and productivity in a decomposition of output per worker. For a sample of OECD countries, we find that productivity has almost no role in explaining cross-country differences in output per worker. This result supports the reasoning of a traditional neoclassical growth model.
JEL: 
O4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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