79518 20200609132532.0 doi 10.1007/s11187-018-0048-y sideral 106470 ART-2018-106470 eng (orcid)0000-0002-5181-929X Medrano-Adán, L. Firm size and productivity from occupational choices 2018 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted We model the distributions of firm sizes and of firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) as outcomes of a market equilibrium from the occupational decisions of individuals with different entrepreneurial skills, of working as employees, employers, or solo entrepreneurs. The model explains empirical regularities such as (i) the positive cross-section correlation between average size of firms and average labor productivity of countries, (ii) the positive association between size and TFP of firms in an economy, and (iii) the power law distribution of firm sizes. Two parameters of the model, one that measures the organizational size diseconomies and other related to the dispersion of the distribution of entrepreneurial skills in the population, appear as main determinants of the differences in firm sizes and in productivity, across economies and among firms within an economy. The results of the paper should be of interest for the design and evaluation of firm-size-dependent policies. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/CREVALOR info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/ECO2013-48496-C4-3-R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 3.555 2018 ECONOMICS 38 / 363 = 0.105 2018 Q1 T1 MANAGEMENT 49 / 217 = 0.226 2018 Q1 T1 BUSINESS 41 / 147 = 0.279 2018 Q2 T1 1.913 2018 Economics and Econometrics 2018 Q1 Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) 2018 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion (orcid)0000-0001-8405-1056 Salas-Fumás, V. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-2945-9141 Sanchez-Asin, J. J. Universidad de Zaragoza 4012 650 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Direcc.Organiza.Empresas Área Organización de Empresas 53 (2018), 243 - 267 Small bus. econ. Small Business Economics 0921-898X 546534 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/79518/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 61680 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/79518/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:79518 articulos driver 2020-06-09-13:21:57 ARTICLE