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

Economics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 311-313

  Maudos, Joaquín ^a,b   Pastor, José Manuel ^a,b   Serrano, Lorenzo ^a,b  

^a University of Valencia   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

O47; Productivity growth; Shift share analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 45249107023     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.02.017     Document Type: Article

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