Ark, Bart van; Inklaar, Robert; McGuckin, Robert H. - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 49 (2003) 3, pp. 295-318
In this paper we analyse labour productivity growth in 51 industries in European countries and the United States. Using shift-share techinques we identify the industries in which the U.S. is leading most strongly. With a detailed decomposition analysis we identify whether the sources of the U.S....