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 …

aggregate productivity growth. The findings show that within-plant productivity growth, which includes the effects of fast … growth of young plants as well as robust growth of large continuing plants, played an important role in the productivity …. Moreover, productivity growth of an industry accompanied an increase of productivity dispersion, a measure commonly interpreted …

, 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 …