EU productivity and competitiveness: an industry perspective
| Alternative title: | can Europe resume the catching-up process |
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| Year of publication: |
2003
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| Other Persons: | O'Mahony, Mary (contributor) ; Ark, Bart van (contributor) |
| Institutions: | Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Unternehmen ; European Commission / Directorate General for Enterprise |
| Publisher: |
Europäische Gemeinschaften / Amt für Amtliche Veröffentlichungen Eur-OP |
| Subject: | Produktivität | Productivity | Wettbewerbsfähigkeit | competitive capacity |
- Table of Contents
- Executive Summary 7
- Report Overview 15
- Chapter I: Productivity Performance Overview 17
- Mary Ou0092Mahony* and Bart van Ark**
- I.1 Introduction 17
- I.2 An overview of EU-US productivity differentials 18
- I.3 Performance measures and measurement issues 23
- I.3.1 Why adopt an industry perspective? 23
- I.3.2 The industry databases 24
- I.4 A summary of the results 28
- I.4.1 Sector Results 28
- I.4.2 Decomposition of EU-15 labour productivity growth by country 29
- I.4.3 Results using industry taxonomies 30
- I.4.4 Growth accounting results 32
- I.4.5 Productivity and competitiveness in manufacturing 33
- I.4.6 Cyclical influences on productivity growth 33
- I.4.7 Results at the firm level 34
- I.5 Implications for policy 35
- Chapter II: Industry Structure and Taxonomies 37
- Catherine Robinson*, Lucy Stokes*, Edwin Stuivenwold** and Bart van Ark**
- II.1 Introduction 37
- II.2 Data description 37
- II.3 Industry structure 38
- II.3.1 Industry shares of aggregate economic activity 38
- II.3.2 The size distribution of industries 39
- II.3.3 Capital intensity 45
- II.4 Industry taxonomies 47
- II.4.1 ICT taxonomy 47
- II.4.2 IT occupational taxonomy 50
- II.4.3 General skills taxonomy 52
- II.4.3.1 Using the detailed skills data for the UK and US 53
- II.4.3.2 Using Eurostat Skills database to develop a taxonomy 54
- II.4.4 Innovation taxonomy based on the Pavitt taxonomy 61
- II.4.5 The taxonomies combined 66
- II.5 Conclusions 67
- II.A Appendix Tables 70
- Chapter III: Productivity and Competitiveness in the EU and the US 73
- Robert Inklaar**, Mary Ou0092Mahony*, Catherine Robinson* and Marcel Timmer**
- III.1 Introduction 73
- III.2 Labour productivity in the EU-15 and US: an overview 73
- III.3 Productivity growth grouped by industry taxonomies 78
- III.3.1 ICT taxonomy 78
- III.3.2 IT occupational, general skills and innovation taxonomies 84
- III.3.3 Conclusions from the taxonomy approach 89
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