Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach using the Lévy alpha-stable distribution
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Keywords
productivity; dispersion; distribution; heavy-tail; Lévy stable distribution;JEL classification:
- D2 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2019-10-21 (Efficiency & Productivity)
- NEP-LMA-2019-10-21 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, & Wages)
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