Productivity growth is a key determinant of improvements in living standards in the long run. However, analysis of … productivity trends at the aggregate level does not capture the variation of firm and sub-industry productivity performance that … underlies industry or aggregate productivity. By examining the differences in productivity performance of firms in particular …

Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological … to increase dispersion. This chapter presents a guide to measurement of dispersion and provides empirical evidence from a …