This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

account to obtain unbiased measures of productivity (growth) and technical efficiency in a parametric frontier framework …-heterogeneity that can complicate empirical work, these studies provide a detailed decomposition of sectoral labor productivity growth … into between and within firm effects and a group- and chain-linked multilateral productivity index. …