Data for: International productivity gaps and the export status of firms: Evidence from France and Japan

Abstract of associated article: This paper provides new evidence on international productivity gaps; this evidence is obtained from large-scale firm-level data from the French and Japanese manufacturing industries using non-parametric methodologies designed to overcome confidentiality restrictions. Our primary finding is that international productivity gaps are sensitive to the export status of firms. We also show that productivity differences between French and Japanese exporters vary across export destinations. We propose a simple analytical framework to relate those basic findings to the new models of international trade with heterogeneous firms. Under this framework, international firm-level productivity comparisons provide new insights into the importance of trade-related institutional and policy differences across countries.

本文从法国和日本制造业的规模性企业级数据中，运用旨在突破保密限制的非参数方法，提供了关于国际生产率差距的新证据。我们的主要发现是，国际生产率差距对企业的出口状态极为敏感。此外，我们还揭示了法国和日本出口商之间的生产率差异在不同出口目的地中存在差异。我们提出了一种简单的分析框架，将基本发现与涉及异质企业的国际贸易新模型联系起来。在此框架下，国际企业级生产率比较为各国贸易相关制度与政策差异的重要性提供了新的洞见。