Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics n° 507-508 - 2019 Varia
Productivity Growth and Resource Reallocation in France: The Process of Creative Destruction
Haithem Ben Hassine
Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics
Paru le :11/07/2019
Abstract
Based on a large sample of French firms, this article examines the contribution of resource reallocation and of the learning effect to changes in total factor productivity (TFP) before (2000-2007) and after (2008/2009-2012) the 2008 crisis. First, we show that there was very little TFP growth before the crisis and that a fall occurred between 2008 and 2012. Second, we show that the evolution of TFP is highly dependent on the learning effect, as measured here by internal firm performance. Its negative contribution after the crisis is indicative of the difficulties experienced by firms in France in adjusting their production scale rapidly and effectively. However, this effect was reduced by 1) a process of resource reallocation towards the most productive continuing firms, which only really took hold from 2009 onwards, and 2) an earlier Schumpeterian process of creative destruction (cleansing effect), the first signs of which appeared in 2008.
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Ben Hassine, H. (2019). Productivity Growth and Resource Reallocation in France: The
Process of Creative Destruction. Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, 507-508, 115–133.
https://doi.org/10.24187/ecostat.2019.507d.1979