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 …

standard productivity measures. TFPQ performs poorly because of variation in product specifications across firms. Controlling … for specifications aligns TFPQ with lab benchmarks. We also collect quality metrics to construct quality productivity (the …-dimensional productivity, or capability. As quality productivity is negatively correlated with TFPQ, TFPR may perform better at capturing …

agriculture in the typical country, particularly in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap …

Besides to the usual Productivity indexes derived from the Labour (value-added) productivity ratio, public statistical … bodies pay also some attention, to a lesser extent, to ‘multi-factor productivity’ (mfp) indexes at sector and country level …

The present study is a contribution to the theory of the measurement of productivity growth. First, it examines the … welfare-theoretic basis for measuring productivity growth and shows that the ideal welfare-theoretic measure is a chain index … of productivity growth rates of different sectors which uses current output weights. Second, it lays out a technique for …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …

-sector productivity growth. Third, other measurement issues we can quantify (such as increasing globalization and fracking) are also …After 2004, measured growth in labor productivity and total-factor productivity (TFP) slowed. We find little evidence … quantitative effect on productivity was larger in the 1995-2004 period than since, despite mismeasurement worsening for some types …

standard productivity measures. TFPQ performs poorly because of variation in product specifications across firms. Controlling … for specifications aligns TFPQ with lab benchmarks. We also collect quality metrics to construct quality productivity (the …-dimensional productivity, or capability. As quality productivity is negatively correlated with TFPQ, TFPR may perform better at capturing …