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An Empirical Model of Growth Through Product Innovation

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Rasmus Lentz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Dale T. Mortensen (Northwestern University)

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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.

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Paper provided by University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics in its series CAM Working Papers with number 2005-13.

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Date of creation: Jul 2005
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Keywords: labor productivity growth; worker reallocation; firm dynamics; firm panel data estimation;

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J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
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  9. Tor Jakob Klette & Samuel Kortum, 2002. "Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation," NBER Working Papers 8819, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  10. Joel L. Horowitz, 1996. "Bootstrap Methods For Covariance Structures," Econometrics 9610003, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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