This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … extent also relative to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the … remarkable catching-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, interrupted in the case of Japan during the 1990s …

France is estimated to lie between 0.2 % and 0.3 % per year over the entire 1980-2000 period. According to our estimates, it …