Firm-level Productivity Differences: Insights from the OECD’s MultiProd Project
| Autor: | Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay, Sara Calligaris, Chiara Criscuolo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | International Productivity Monitor, Iss 32 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1492-9759 1492-9767 |
| Popis: | Productivity plays a central role in shaping the welfare of societies and the competitiveness of countries. Productivity differences, for instance, explain a large share of the differences in income per capita across countries. This article investigates the role of productivity heterogeneity across 18 countries over the period 2001-2012. In particular, it analyses the evidence that emerges from the distributed micro-data approach carried out in the OECD MultiProd project. The main outcome of the project is a unique dataset of harmonized crosscountry moments that are representative for the population of firms and comparable across countries even at a detailed industry level. We look at the 90-10 percentile ratio of labour productivity and multifactor productivity and show that: i) productivity dispersion is high in both manufacturing and non-financial market services; ii) it has increased over time, especially in services; iii) a substantial part of this dispersion comes from differences among firms within the same sector of activity in each country; iv) this within-sector dispersion remains the most important component of the overall dispersion for the entire period. |
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