An earlier paper by Diewert (2013) provided some new decompositions of economy wide labour productivity growth and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth into sectoral effects. The economy wide labour productivity growth rate turned out to depend on the sectoral labour productivity growth rates,...

The paper provides some new decompositions of labour productivity growth and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth into sectoral effects. These new decompositions draw on the earlier work of Tang and Wang (2004). The economy wide labour productivity growth rate turns out to depend on the...