prospects as an engine of growth. Our analysis resoundingly confirms the conventional wisdom of an underperforming service … sector. In light of the Republic of Korea's high income and development level, the poor performance of modern services is of …

, somewhat surprisingly in light of the difficulty of achieving productivity gains in services, we also find that services labor …The underdeveloped service sector in Asia has the potential to become a new engine of economic growth for developing … Asia, which has traditionally relied on export-oriented manufacturing to power its growth. The central objective of this …

been simultaneously assessed that services display lower productivity levels and growth rates than other economic …The relationship between economic structure and productivity growth has been a subject of increasing interest over … focuses on the impact of tertiarization on overall productivity growth, using a sample of European NUTS-2 regions in the …

The paper presents a decomposition of productivity gap between South-Korea and Estonia for the year 2006. After …-share analysis with using relative productivity indi-cators. Decomposition shows that the overall productivity gap is mainly related … to the manufacturing sector. The results show that at sectoral view, discrepancies in productivity levels of individual …

, somewhat surprisingly in light of the difficulty of achieving productivity gains in services, we also find that services labor …The underdeveloped service sector in Asia has the potential to become a new engine of economic growth for developing … Asia, which has traditionally relied on export-oriented manufacturing to power its growth. The central objective of this …

This paper computes sectoral contributions to real labour productivity growth in Malta during the two decades since … 2000. The aim is to give an account of the sectoral developments affecting Malta's productivity growth in the twenty years … technique developed by Tang and Wang (2004), which allows for the decomposition of sectoral productivity growth into efficiency …

to a sectoral reallocation of employment from manufacturing to services, leaving total employment unaffected. We …

driver in growth and productivity. We demonstrate that the Central and Eastern European countries have successfully … specialized in higher-tech industries while maintaining gaps, albeit diminishing, in services. As the strong productivity catching … sides of the iron curtain. Using the recently released EU KLEMS database on detailed sectoral growth and employment measures …