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

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.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Maudos, Joaquin ; Pastor, José Manuel ; Serrano, Lorenzo
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 100.2008, 2, p. 311-313
Publisher:	Elsevier

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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