A Tale of Two Tails: Establishment Size and Labour Productivity in United States and German Manufacturing at the Start of the Twentieth Century

Abstract

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Proximate Sources of Growth

“…Although the size of the European market was not that different from the US, and thus allowed for big production units, European countries had relatively more small establishments than the US. Indeed, 25 per cent of the manufacturing labour productivity gap between Germany and the US in 1909 can be explained by differences in establishment size (Veenstra and de Jong 2016).…”

The Yankees of Europe? A New View on Technology and Productivity in German Manufacturing in the Early Twentieth Century

“… 3 For the pre-WWI period German capital-intensity levels are available, but labor-productivity data only for a limited sample of industries (Broadberry and Burhop 2007; Veenstra and de Jong, forthcoming 2016). Hence we can provide this type of analysis only for a limited set of countries. …”