sector to employment growth, productivity and innovation, and to identify factors, institutions and policies that could …

This paper examines recent patterns in productivity growth of service industries and analyses the role of problems in … measuring service productivity growth on industry and aggregate productivity growth. At the aggregate level, unbalanced growth … service sector itself is, however, composed of a set of heterogenous industries with productivity growth rates ranging from …

Labour productivity growth in the service sector, which accounts for 70% of Japan’s economic output and employment, has … inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). Reversing the deceleration in productivity growth in the service sector is … productivity growth in services characterised by either low productivity or high growth potential, such as retail, transport …

for almost all employment growth in the OECD area. But despite its growing weight, productivity growth in services has …