Timmer, Marcel P.; Vries, Gaaitzen J. de - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 3 (2009) 2, pp. 165-190
Recent studies of economic growth have moved from explaining average trends in long-term growth to study growth accelerations and decelerations. In this paper we argue that the standard shift-share analysis is inadequate to measure the contribution of sectors to accelerations in productivity. We...