Does input quality drive measured differences in firm productivity?

International Economic Review

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 961-989

  Fox, Jeremy T ^a,b   Smeets, Valérie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455217223     PISSN: 00206598     EISSN: 14682354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2354.2011.00656.x     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Abowd, J. M., F. Kramarz, and D. N. Margolis, "High Wage Workers and High Wage Firms," Econometrica 67(2) (1999), 251-333.
2. Ackerberg, D., C. L. Benkard, S. Berry, and A. Pakes, "Econometric Tools for Analyzing Market Outcomes," in J. J. Heckman and E. E. Leamer, eds., Handbook of Econometrics, Volume 6A (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007a).
3. Ackerberg, D., K. Caves, and G. Frazer, "Structural Estimation of Production Functions," Working Paper, U2007b.
4. Arellano, M., and S. Bond, "Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations," The Review of Economic Studies 58(2) (1991), 277-97.
5. Baily, M. N., C. Hulten, and D. Campbell, "Productivity Dynamics in Manufacturing Plants," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Microeconomics, 1992 (1992), pp. 187-267.
6. Baldwin, John R., The Dynamics of Industrial Competition: A North American Perspective (London: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
7. Bartelsman, E. J., and M. Doms, "Understanding Productivity: Lessons from Longitudinal Microdata," Journal of Economic Literature, 38(3) (2000), 569-94.
8. Bernard, A. B., and J. B. Jensen, "Exporters, Jobs, and Wages in U.S., Manufacturing: 1976-1987," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Macroeconomics, 1995 (1995), pp. 67-119.
9. Berndt, E. R., and D. M. Hesse, "Measuring and Assessing Capacity Utilization in the Manufacturing Sectors of Nine OECD Countries," European Economic Review 30(5) (1986), 961-89.
10. Bloom, N., and J. Van Reenen, "Measuring and Explaining Management Practices across Firms and Countries," Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXXII (2007), 1351-1408.
11. Blundell, R., and S. Bond, "GMM Estimation with Persistent Panel Data: An Application to Production Functions," Econometric Reviews 19(3) (2000), 321-40.
12. Cabral, L. M. B., and J. Mata, "On the Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution: Facts and Theory," American Economic Review, 93(4) (2003), 1075-90.
13. Christensen, L. R., D. W. Jorgenson, and L. J. Lau, "Transcendental Logarithmic Production Functions," The Review of Economics and Statistics, 55(1) (1973), 28-45.
14. Collard-Wexler, A., "Productivity Dispersion and Plant Selection in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry," Working Paper, New York University, 2010.
15. Davis, S. J., and J. C. Haltiwanger, "Gross Job Creation, Gross Job Destruction, and Employment Reallocation," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107(3) (1992), 819-63.
16. Denison, E. F., The Sources of Economic Growth in the United States and the Alternatives Before Us, (New York: Committee for Economic Development, 1962).
17. Dhrymes, P., The Structure of Production Technology: Productivity and Aggregation Effects (London: Edward Elgar, 1995).
18. Dupuy, A., "Sorting on Skills and Preferences: Tinbergen Meets Sattinger," Working Paper, Maastricht University, 2010.
19. Eeckhout, J., and P. Kircher, "Identifying Sorting-In Theory," Working Paper, University Pompeu Fabra, 2009.
20. Foster, L., J. Haltiwanger, and C. Syverson, "Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability? American Economic Review, 98(1) (2008), 394-425.
21. Fox, J. T., and V. Smeets, "Three Empirical Checks for the Validity of Olley and Pakes Productivity Estimators," Working Paper, University of Michigan, 2010.
22. Frazer, G., "Heterogeneous Labour in Firms and Returns to Education in Ghana," Working Paper, University of Toronto, 2006.
23. Griliches, Z.I., "Specification Bias in Estimates of Production Functions," Journal of Farm Economics, 39(1) (1957), 8-20.
24. Griliches, Z.I., and J. Mairesse, "Production Functions: The Search for Identification," in S. Strøm, ed., Econometrics and Economic Theory in the Twentieth Century: The Ragnar Frisch Centennial Symposium (London: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
25. Haltiwanger, J., J. Lane, and J. Spletzer, "Wages, Productivity, and the Dynamic Interaction of Businesses and Workers," Labour Economics 14 (2007), 575-602.
26. Hellerstein, J. K., and D. Neumark, "Sex, Wages, and Productivity: An Empirical Analysis of Israeli Firm-level Data," International Economic Review 40(1) (1999), 95-123.
27. Hellerstein, J. K., D. Neumark, and K. R. Troske, "Wages, Productivity, and Worker Characteristics: Evidence from Plant-level Production Functions and Wage Equations," Journal of Labor Economics 17(3) (1999), 409-46.
28. Hellerstein, J., and D. Neumark, "Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor: Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set," in E. R. Berndt and C. R. Hulten, eds., Hard to Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches (Chicago: University of Chicago), 2006.
29. Iranzo, S., F. Schivardi, and E. Tosetti, "Skill Dispersion and Firm Productivity: An Analysis with Employer-Employee Matched Data," Journal of Labor Economics 26(2) (2008), 247-85.
30. Jorgenson, D. W., F. M. Gollop, and B. Fraumeni, Productivity and U.S. Economic Growth (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987).
31. Katayama, H., S. Lu, and J. R. Tybout, "Firm-Level Productivity Studies: Illusions and a Solution," International Journal of Industrial Organization 27 (2009), 403-13.
32. Klette, T. J., and Z. Griliches, "The Inconsistency of Common Scale Estimators When Output Prices Are Unobserved and Endogenous," Journal of Applied Econometrics 11 (1996), 343-61.
33. Lise, J., C. Meghir, and J.-M. Robin, "Matching, Sorting and Wages," Working Paper, University College London, 2010.
34. Lopes de Melo, R., "Sorting in the Labor Market: Theory and Measurement," Working Paper, University of Chicago, December 2009.
35. Maksimovic, V., and G. Phillips, "The Market for Corporate Assets: Who Engages in Mergers and Asset Sales and Are There Efficiency Gains? The Journal of Finance 56(6) (2001), 2019-65.
36. Marschak, J., and W. H. Andrews, "Random Simultaneous Equations and the Theory of Production," Econometrica 12(3/4) (1944), 143-205.
37. Mulligan, C. B., and X. Sala I-Martin, "Measuring Aggregate Human Capital," Journal of Economic Growth 5(3) (2000), 215-52.
38. Olley, G. S., and A. Pakes, "The Dynamics of Productivity in the Telecommunications Equipment Industry," Econometrica, 64(6) (1996), 1263-97.
39. Ornaghi, C., "Assessing the Effects of Measurement Errors on the Estimation of Production Functions," Journal of Applied Econometrics 21(6) (2006), 879-91.
40. Oulton, N., "Competition and the Dispersion of Labour Productivity amongst UK Companies," Oxford Economic Papers 50(1) (1998), 23-38.
41. Schoar, A., "Effects of Corporate Diversification on Productivity," The Journal of Finance 57(6) (2002), 2379-403.
42. Syverson, C., "Market Structure and Productivity: A Concrete Example," Journal of Political Economy 112 (2004), 1181-222.
43. Van Biesebroeck, J., "Wages Equal Productivity: Fact or Fiction?" NBER Working Paper No. 10174, June 2007.
44. Welch, F., "Linear Synthesis of Skill Distribution," The Journal of Human Resources, 4(3) (1969), 311-27.
45. Whelan, K., "Computers, Obsolescence, and Productivity," Review of Economics and Statistics 84(3) (2002), 445-61.