ZAGOTTIS, Alexandre de <br/><br/>
Rendimentos crescentes e a distribuição internacional de renda 

 - São Paulo :  Editora 34,  jul./set. 2008 
<br/><br/> Increasing returns and the international distribution of income. The existence of increasing returns in high technology industries assigns a path dependent character to the international division of labor. Rich countries, first entrants in these industries, enjoy permanent advantages that prevent, in a free market environment, the development of such industries in middle-income countries. This dynamics allows the former group of countries to experience a higher growth rate of labor productivity than the latter, and, as a result, increases the gap between the workers’ standard of living in these countries. It is up to the States of middle-income countries the task of devising development strategies capable of breaking such pattern and improving the international distribution of income