A Tale of Two Tails
Establishment Size and Labour Productivity in United States and German Manufacturing at the Start of the Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20437625 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joost Veenstra (University of Groningen, corresponding author), Herman De Jong (0000-0002-5213-4356, University of Groningen) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 198-220 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-8992 • E-ISSN: 1467-8446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/aehr.12100 |
| OpenAlex | W2443816510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 30 |
This paper studies the importance of establishment size for the German/US labour‐productivity gap in manufacturing at the start of the twentieth century. First, we show that the left tail of the employment distribution by establishment size was larger in Germany than in the USA. Second, using US state data for 1909, we find a positive correlation between establishment size and labour productivity. Third, imposing the coefficients of these estimates on establishment‐size differences between Germany and the USA, we calculate that a redistribution of German employment to larger establishments, as in the USA, reduces the labour‐productivity gap by about 25 per cent
Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics) · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · German · Labour economics · Political science · Productivity · Redistribution (election) · Economic Growth and Productivity · Firm Innovation and Growth · Global trade and economics · Mathematics
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |