Firm-level productivity dispersion and convergence

Gilbert Cette, Simon Corde and Rémy Lecat

Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 166, issue C, 76-78

Abstract: On a French firm dataset, productivity at the technological frontier has not decelerated and convergence of firms’ productivity has not slowed down. Yet, the dispersion of productivity has increased, which suggests growing difficulties in reallocating production factors between firms.

Keywords: Total factor productivity; Dissemination of innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E22 L11 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.02.018

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