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    Emerging Cities as Independent Engines of Growth: The Case of Buenos Aires
    (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-10) Hausmann, Ricardo; Barrios, Douglas; Muhaj, Daniela; Noor, Sehar; Pan, Carolina; Santos, Miguel Angel; Tapia Rodriguez, Jorge Andres; Zuccolo, Bruno
    What does it take for a sub-national unit to become an autonomous engine of growth? This issue is particularly relevant to large cities, as they tend to display larger and more complex know-how agglomerations and may have access to a broader set of policy tools. To approximate an answer to this question, specific to the case of Buenos Aires, Harvard’s Growth Lab engaged in a research project from December 2018 to June 2019, collaborating with the Center for Evidence-based Evaluation of Policies (CEPE) of Universidad Torcuato di Tella, and the Development Unit of the Secretary of Finance of the City of Buenos Aires. Together, we have developed a research agenda that seeks to provide inputs for a policy plan aimed at decoupling Buenos Aires’s growth trajectory from the rest of Argentina’s.
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    You Get What You Pay For: Sources and Consequences of the Public Sector Premium in Albania and Sri Lanka
    (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-02) Hausmann, Ricardo; Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Noor, Sehar
    We study the factors behind the public sector premium in Albania and Sri Lanka, the group heterogeneity in the premium, the sources of public sector wage compression, and the impact of this compression on the way individuals self-select between the public and the private sector. Similar to other countries, the public sectors in Albania and Sri Lanka pay higher wages than the private sector, for all but the most valued employees. While half of the premium of Sri Lanka and two-thirds of it in Albania are explained by differences in the occupation-education-experience mix between the sectors, and the level of private sector informality, the unexplained part of the premium is significant enough to affect the preferences of working in the public sector for different groups. We show that the compressed distributions of public sector wages and benefits create incentives for positive sorting into the public sector among most employees, and negative sorting among the most productive ones.