Some new international comparisons of productivity performance at the sectoral level

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-104

  Malley, Jim ^a   Muscatelli, Anton ^a   Woitek, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; G 7 economies; Gross output; Productivity growth; Sectoral productivity growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 12944299812     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00260     Document Type: Article

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