The role of services sectors for aggregate productivity: A firm-level anatomy of a large panel of European firms

Bruno Merlevede and Annelies Van Maele
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Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium from Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: This paper documents how the composition of value added per worker in Europe is distributed over manufacturing, services, and other industries based on a large panel of firmlevel data. We show that a non-negligible part of value added is accounted for by services industries. We then explore how micro-data at the firm level can be used to analyse this important component of aggregate productivity growth. We further discuss and explore using our data whether semi-parametric estimators of total factor productivity that are commonly found in the literature and typically tailored towards manufacturing are fit for analysing firms services sectors.

Keywords: Productivity slowdown; firm-level data; services industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2025-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eec, nep-eff, nep-eur, nep-lma, nep-sbm and nep-tid
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