Productivity dispersion

Why has productivity dispersion across firms gone up?

Firms at the frontier have seen significant productivity gains, the others not so much. Alex calls this a “lack of innovation diffusion” and ...

The firm-level link between productivity dispersion and wage ...

Differences in average wages across firms – which account for around one-half of overall wage inequality – are mainly explained by differences in firm wage ...

Firm-level productivity dispersion and convergence

The dispersion of productivity between firms has increased, which suggests growing difficulties in reallocating production factors, labour and capital, between ...

Capital Liquidity, Productivity Dispersion and Market Structure

Abstract. We propose an industry-level index of capital liquidity -- defined as the share of used capital in aggregate industry capital expenditure -- that ...

Productivity dispersion in the Italian knowledge-intensive business ...

In particular, our empirical evidence suggests that the 44% of variability in Italian KIBS relies in the interaction between the localization of ...

Increased Productivity Dispersion across Firms and Factor ...

News from the Frontier: Increased Productivity Dispersion across Firms and Factor Reallocation.

Productivity Dispersion and Plant Selection in the Ready-Mix ...

Syverson (2004) documents productivity dispersion in the ready-mix concrete industry using data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Productivity is ...

Productivity dispersion manufacturing, 1978-2016 - CBS

This study describes the changes in productivity differences between firms operating in the Dutch manufacturing sector.

Productivity Dispersion and its Determinants: The Role of Import ...

In particular, exposure to low income countries decreases the heterogeneity in productivity in a sector while imports from developed countries ...

Information Frictions and Productivity Dispersion: The Role of ...

H2: The effect of financial reporting quality on productivity dispersion is more pronounced for industries with a greater dependence on external financing. It ...

supplement to “productivity dispersion, between-firm

22If X and Y are two independent random variables with CDFs F, G, then P(max{X Y}≤ z) = F(z)G(z). Page 5. PRODUCTIVITY DISPERSION AND THE LABOR ...

Productivity Dispersion across Plants, Emission Abatement, and ...

Empirical studies suggest systematic relationships between plant's productivity and plant's emissions and emission-abatement costs. This paper ...

Increased Productivity Dispersion across Firms and Factor ...

Another is that it has resulted from a misallocation of production factors, associated with a growing productivity dispersion among firms and a ...

Productivity Dispersion and Input Prices: The Case of Electricity - EIA

U.S. manufacturing plants exhibit large dispersion in electricity productivity, physical efficiency and prices - even within narrow industries.

The Productivity Dispersion of the Korean Manufacturing Industry ...

According to the macroeconomic allocation efficiency measure, particularly based on the methodology of Hsieh and Klenow (2009), Korea's ...

Accounting for Productivity Dispersion over the Business Cycle

NOTE: Staff working papers in the Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS) are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate ...

Productivity dispersion and sectoral labour shares in Europe | ESRI

The stability of the labour share of income is a fundamental feature of macroeconomic models, with broad implications for the shape of the ...

RIETI - The evolution of the productivity dispersion of firms

Abstract. There is a growing body of literature analyzing empirically the evolution of productivity dispersion at the firm level and its determinants. This ...

Productivity dispersion and sectoral labour shares in Europe

Abstract: The stability of the labour share of income is a fundamental feature of macroeconomic models, with broad.

EMISSION TAXES AND STANDARDS IN A GENERAL ...

... dispersion in productivity among monopolistically competitive plants. Emission is modeled as a by-product of goods production. An abatement technology is ...