Explaining the US-EU productivity growth gap: Structural change vs. intra-sectoral effect

Joaquin Maudos (), José Pastor and Lorenzo Serrano Martinez

Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 100, issue 2, 311-313

Abstract: This paper proposes a decomposition of labour productivity growth in the EU15 and the the US since the mid 1990s. The results suggest that the EU's relative slowdown is due to modest "pure" gains of productivity within sectors.

Date: 2008
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