Intra-sectoral structural change and aggregate productivity development: a robust stochastic nonparametric frontier function approach

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This paper investigates the sources of total factor productivity growth in the German manufacturing sector, 1981-1998. Decomposition formulae for aggregate productivity growth are used to identify the effects of structural change and entry-exit on aggregate productivity growth. Documented is a substantial rise of productivity growth after the German reunification. The bulk of this rise can be attributed to structural change and entry-exit. Two methodological refinements are implemented, the first is the application of a robust stochastic nonparametric approach to frontier function analysis and the second is the calculation of bootstrap confidence intervals for the components of the productivity decompositions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2008,038

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
• Subject: Productivity decomposition ; structural change ; manufacturing ; Produktivität ; Industrieller Strukturwandel ; Dekompositionsverfahren ; Technische Effizienz ; Nichtparametrisches Verfahren ; Verarbeitendes Gewerbe ; Schätzung ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Krüger, Jens J.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (where): Jena
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/25719
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET