全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): On Average Establishment Size across Sectors and Countriesy

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w24968
来源ID	Working Paper 24968
	On Average Establishment Size across Sectors and Countriesy
	Pedro Bento; Diego Restuccia
发表日期	2018-09-03
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	We construct a new dataset for the average employment size of establishments across sectors and countries from hundreds of sources. Establishments are larger in manufacturing than in services, and in each sector they are larger in richer countries. The cross-country income elasticity of establishment size is remarkably similar across sectors, about 0.3. We discuss these facts in light of several prominent theories of development such as entry costs and misallocation. We then quantify the sectoral and aggregate impact of entry costs and misallocation in an otherwise standard two-sector model with endogenous firm entry, firm-level productivity, and sectoral employment shares. We find that observed measures of misallocation account for the entire range of establishment-size differences across sectors and countries and almost 50 percent of the difference in non-agricultural GDP per capita between rich and poor countries.
主题	Macroeconomics ; Macroeconomic Models ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Growth and Productivity
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w24968
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582642
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Pedro Bento,Diego Restuccia. On Average Establishment Size across Sectors and Countriesy. 2018.

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