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The role of industry, occupation, and location specific knowledge in the survival of new firms
C. Jara-Figueroa, Bogang Jun, Edward Glaeser +1
How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of t…
Shooting High or Low: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?
Flávio L. Pinheiro, Aamena Alshamsi, Dominik Hartmann +2
Countries tend to diversify their exports by entering products that are related to their current exports. Yet this average behavior is not representative of every diversification p…
The structural constraints of income inequality in Latin America
Dominik Hartmann, Cristian Jara-Figueroa, Miguel Guevara +2
Recent work has shown that a country's productive structure constrains its level of economic growth and income inequality. Here, we compare the productive structure of countries in…
Discovering East Africa's Industrial Opportunities
Cesar A. Hidalgo
What are East Africa's industrial opportunities? In this article we explore this question by using the Product Space to study the productive structure of five south-east African co…
The Network Structure of Economic Output
Ricardo Hausmann, Cesar A. Hidalgo
Much of the analysis of economic growth has focused on the study of aggregate output. Here, we deviate from this tradition and look instead at the structure of output embodied in t…
The Building Blocks of Economic Complexity
Cesar A. Hidalgo, Ricardo Hausmann
For Adam Smith, wealth was related to the division of labor. As people and firms specialize in different activities, economic efficiency increases, suggesting that development is a…