Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92451 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionspapier No. 44
Publisher: 
Universität Konstanz, Forschungsschwerpunkt Internationale Arbeitsmarktforschung, Konstanz
Abstract: 
In the paper, the sources of productivity growth are investigated by an empirical analysis with micro data for West-German manufacturing firms. The theoretical framework corresponds to an augmented growth accounting approach based on a production function. The empirical results reveal that innovative firms exhibit more productivity increases. Large firms exhibit more productivity increases as compared with small firms, ceteris paribus, which hints towards scale economies at the firm level. However, innovations seem to be more productive in small firms. Scale economies at the sectoral level are indicated by positive spillover effects from others productivity changes.
Subjects: 
Growth accounting
innovations
JEL: 
C33
O39
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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