Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological … through resource reallocation, thereby reducing dispersion. On the other hand, innovation and technological uncertainty tend … to increase dispersion. This chapter presents a guide to measurement of dispersion and provides empirical evidence from a …

exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …

The paper presents a detailed industry-level productivity analysis (52 industries) for the effects of industry … industry structure and productivity growth of an industry. The analysis reveals positive effects of vertically disintegrated … analysis is the recently collected productivity database for Germany. The Ifo Productivity Database, which is unique due to its …