Structural Change in Advanced Nations: A New Set of Stylised Facts
Structural Change in Advanced Nations: A New Set of Stylised Facts
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发达国家的结构变化:一组新的典型事实
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2011
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M. Timmer
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D. Jorgenson;M. Timmer
We provide new evidence on patterns of structural change in advanced economies, reconsidering the stylised facts put forward by Kaldor (1963), Kuznets (1971), and Maddison (1980). Since 1980, the services sector has overwhelmingly predominated in the economic activity of the European Union, Japan, and the US, but there is substantial heterogeneity among services. Personal, finance, and business services have low productivity growth and increasing shares in employment and GDP. By contrast, shares of distribution services are constant, and productivity growth is rapid. We find that the labour share in value-added is declining, while the use of ICT capital and skilled labour is increasing in all sectors and regions.