Trends in "structural" productivity levels in the major industrialized countries

Renaud Bourlès () and Gilbert Cette ()

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Abstract: Estimating returns to hours worked and the employment rate provides us with an original interpretation of changes in US productivity and other industrialized countries' catch-up with US productivity levels over recent decades.

Keywords: Productivity; Employment rate; Working time; Technical frontier. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 E24 F01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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