Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33243 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1685
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Productivity dispersion across firms is large and persistent, and worker reallocation among firms is an important source of productivity growth. The purpose of the paper is to estimate the structure of an equilibrium model of growth through innovation that explains these facts. The model is a modified version of the Schumpeterian theory of firm evolution and growth developed by Klette and Kortum (2004). The data set is a panel of Danish firms than includes information on value added, employment, and wages. The model's fit is good and the structural parameter estimates have interesting implications for the aggregate growth rate and the contribution of worker reallocation to it.
Subjects: 
labor productivity growth
worker reallocation
firm dynamics
firm panel data estimation
JEL: 
E22
E24
J23
J24
L11
L25
O3
O4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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