The UK Productivity Gap & The Importance Of The Service Sectors

The UK’s poor productivity performance relative to the US has been a focus for government policy and analysis in recent Budgets and Pre-Budget Reports. Figure 1, where the UK business sector is scaled to 100, shows that US business sector labour productivity (value-added per worker) was just over 40% higher than the UK level in 2001, about the same as it was at the beginning of the 1990s. The labour productivity gap fell over the early 1990s, when the UK experienced relatively faster growth in business sector labour productivity than the US, but it has since increased again as productivity growth slowed in the UK and accelerated in the US.[...]

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Year of publication:	2003-12-01
Authors:	Griffith, Rachel ; Harrison, Rupert ; Haskel, Jonathan ; Sako, Mari
Institutions:	Advanced Institute of Management Research <London>
Subject:	Handel \| trade \| Industrie \| industry \| Produktivität \| Dienstleilstungssektor \| Wirtschaftssektor \| Business Sector

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1 INTRODUCTION
2 DECOMPOSING THE PRODUCTIVITY GAP BY SECTOR
2.1 Industry Breakdown of the Productivity Gap in 2001
2.2 Differences Between 1990, 1995 and 2001
2.3 Network Industries
2.4 Manufacturing
2.5 Business Services
2.6 Machinery and Equipment
2.7 Financial Intermediation
2.8 Wholesale and Retail
2.9 Shifts in Employment Across Sectors
3 RETAILING
3.1 Are UK Shops Too Small?
3.2 Is UK Productivity Held Back by Lower Entry and Exit?
3.3 Data and Results
4 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH

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