Empirical research has shown tremendous productivity differences, even within narrowly defined industries. A great host … of studies is explainsing this productivity disparity by factors such as idiosyncratic technology shocks, input price … diversification across industry establishments is positively related to within-industry labor productivity dispersion. -- Product …

This paper investigates the sources of total factor productivity growth in the German manufacturing sector, 1981 …-1998. Decomposition formulae for aggregate productivity growth are used to identify the effects of structural change and entry-exit on … aggregate productivity growth. Documented is a substantial rise of productivity growth after the German reunification. The bulk …