Convergence of Firm-Level Productivity, Globalisation, Information Technology, and Competition: Evidence from France

Chevalier, Paul-Antoine; Lecat, Rémy; Oulton, Nicholas

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“…In order to obtain real productivity values (at 2015 prices), the nominal indicators (at current prices) were divided by gross domestic product deflator. Such productivity calculations are widely used in academic literature (e.g., Chevalier et al (2012), Hadengue and Warrin (2013), Barnett et al (2014)).…”

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Global pandemic COVID-19 has increased the level of digitalization which allows public and private sector organizations in the world to employ people remotely outside office premises and crossing borders of the world. Remote work is one of the new employment forms caused by the impact of digitalization, which keeps conquering and strengthening the positions on our daily professional lives.It means extended use of different new employment forms, including the digital transition of administration processes and business management, improvement of digital skills and competences, contributing to development of areas of services and products with higher benefit (Breaugh, Farabee, 2012). Research aims to study basic principles and tendencies of remote work organization based on theoretical aspects, draw conclusions and elaborate proposals for improvement of remote work. In order to achieve the goal, the tasks are as follows: 1) provide the explanation of remote work organization; 2) describe secondary data from a conducted survey by Milasi, S., Fernandez -Macias, E., Gonzalez-Vazquez, I. 2020, European Commission; 3) conduct survey about remote work.

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Convergence of Firm-Level Productivity, Globalisation, Information Technology, and Competition: Evidence from France

Chevalier¹,

Lecat

Oulton

2009

SSRN Journal

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Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries are narrowly defined. So there is a significant opportunity for the least productive firms to catch up to the most productive. The formers' convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic level. This article sheds light on this convergence process in the 1990s and the 2000s in France and on some of the factors which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But most importantly the speed of convergence has slowed during the course of the 1990s, a fact which is explained principally by the acceleration of the productivity of firms on the technological frontier. Three possible explanations of these stylised facts are considered: globalisation, information technology, and competition. Globalisation and information technology may have benefited the most productive firms more and the growth of competition may at the same time have stimulated the productivity of firms at the frontier while discouraging the convergence of the least productive firms.

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Quel nouveau sentier de croissance de la productivité du travail ?

Ducoudré¹,

Heyer²

2018

Revue De l'OFCE

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Dans cette étude, nous avons cherché à mettre en évidence le nouveau sentier de croissance de la productivité du travail dans six grands pays développés (Allemagne, Espagne, États-Unis, France, Italie et Royaume-Uni) à partir d'une méthode économétrique-le filtre de Kalman-permettant l'estimation d'une équation d'emploi aux fondements théoriques explicités et des gains de productivité tendancielle. Cette méthode a pour avantage de ne pas faire reposer l'estimation du taux de croissance de la productivité tendancielle sur des ruptures de tendance dont la date d'occurrence ne fait pas consensus. Elle permet également d'estimer conjointement et de manière explicite la tendance et le cycle de productivité, tout en isolant les évolutions dues aux évolutions de la durée du travail et, certes de manière imparfaite, celles dues aux évolutions du coût du travail. Les équations de demande de travail estimées pour les six pays considérés permettent de retracer de façon satisfaisante l'évolution passée de l'emploi. Les résultats confirment le ralentissement des gains tendanciels de productivité-dont un certain nombre d'explications ont fait l'objet d'une littérature abondante rapidement résumé ici. Le taux de croissance de la productivité tendancielle converge pour cinq des six pays vers des valeurs comprises dans un intervalle allant de 0,8 % à 1 % de gains de productivité tendanciels par an. Mots clés : productivité du travail, filtre de Kalman, comparaison internationale, cycles de productivité. 1. Le lecteur intéressé par une revue de littérature récente pourra se référer à Bergeaud et al. (2016) ou Crafts et O'Rourke (2013). 2. L'équation de demande de travail repose sur une fonction de production et une hypothèse de progrès technique neutre au sens de Harrod.

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Convergence of Firm-Level Productivity, Globalisation, Information Technology, and Competition: Evidence from France

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References 44 publications

International scientific conference "New Challenges in Economic and Business Development – 2021: Post-Crisis Economy" : Proceedings

International scientific conference "New Challenges in Economic and Business Development – 2021: Post-Crisis Economy" : Proceedings

Convergence of Firm-Level Productivity, Globalisation, Information Technology, and Competition: Evidence from France

Quel nouveau sentier de croissance de la productivité du travail ?

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