Italy's Decline: Getting the Facts Right

Francesco Daveri () and Cecilia Jona-Lasinio ()

Giornale degli Economisti, 2005, vol. 64, issue 4, pages 365-410

Abstract: The Italian economy is often said to be on a declining path. In this paper, we document that: (i) Italy’s current decline is a labor productivity problem (ii) the labor productivity slowdown stems from declining productivity growth in all industries but utilities (with manufacturing contributing for about one half of the reduction) and diminished inter-industry reallocation of workers from agriculture to market services; (iii) the labor productivity slowdown has been mostly driven by declining TFP, with roughly unchanged capital deepening. The only mild decline of capital deepening is due to the rise in the value added share of capital that counteracted declining capital accumulation.

Keywords: productivity growth; TFP; Decline; Italy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 O4 O5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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