Productivity Growth in Service Industries: Are the Transatlantic Differences Measurement-Driven?
Productivity Growth in Service Industries: Are the Transatlantic Differences Measurement-Driven?
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服务业的生产力增长：跨大西洋差异是衡量驱动的吗？
DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-4991.2008.00284.x
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发表时间：
2008
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通讯作者：
Jochen Hartwig
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作者：
Jochen Hartwig
自上世纪90年代中期以来，美国的劳动生产率增长远远超过欧洲。van Ark etal。（2003）发现三个服务业的生产率增长在美国加速，而在欧洲没有，这是造成这种差异的主要原因。这三个行业分别是批发零售业和金融证券贸易。然而，由于大西洋两岸的测量方法不同，欧洲生产率增长的不足可能是统计上的人为因素。本文试图通过量化美国贸易和银行业增长率在多大程度上被欧洲不寻常的测量方法拉升，来回答这个问题，是否确实如此。此外，文章还对美国服务业近期生产率增长的回升是否治愈了鲍莫尔成本病提出了一些看法。
Since the mid-nineties, U.S. labor productivity outgrows its European counterpart by a wide margin. van Ark etal. (2003) have found three service industries where productivity growth has accelerated in the U.S., but not in Europe, to account for most of the difference. These three industries are wholesale and retail trade, and trade in financial securities. However, since measurement methods differ on both sides of the Atlantic, Europe's shortfall in productivity growth could be a statistical artifact. This paper tries to answer the question whether this is indeed the case by quantifying the extent to which the U.S. growth rates in trade and banking are pulled upward by measurement methods that are unusual in Europe. In addition, some observations are offered on whether the recent upswing in productivity growth in the U.S. services sector has cured Baumol's Cost Disease.
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.233139
发表时间：
2000-03
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IO: Productivity
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作者：
Stephen D. Oliner;Daniel E. Sichel
通讯作者：
Stephen D. Oliner;Daniel E. Sichel