, France and the United Kingdom. Productivity trends are then studied over a shorter period, using quarterly data, for the …The purpose of this article is to study the trends in per capita productivity in several major industrialised countries … United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Japan and the Netherlands. There are already a large number of …

Recent attention has focused on the UK's productivity gap in the retail sector. A recent paper by Reynolds et al (2005 …) emphasises that a more thorough understanding of what drives productivity in the retail sector requires a better understanding of … the main issues involved in the measurement of productivity in retail, and how these problems are being tackled in new …

We study the productivity level distributions of manufacturing firms in France and Germany, and how these distributions … evolved across the Great Recession. We show the presence of a systematic productivity advantage of German firms over French … the productivity distribution. We also highlight the role of sectoral growth, firm size and export intensity in explaining …