Comparing Apples to Oranges: Productivity Convergence and Measurement across Industries and Countries
Comparing Apples to Oranges: Productivity Convergence and Measurement across Industries and Countries
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苹果与橙子的比较：跨行业和国家的生产力趋同和衡量
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2001
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C. I. Jones
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A. Bernard;C. I. Jones
本文考察了1970- 1987年间14个经合组织国家的部门在总量收敛中的作用。主要发现是，制造业几乎没有劳动生产率或多要素生产率收敛的证据，而其他部门，特别是服务业，正在推动总收敛结果。为了确定收敛结果的鲁棒性，本文介绍了一种新的多要素生产率的措施，避免了许多固有的问题，传统的全要素生产率的措施时，比较生产率水平。制造业缺乏收敛性，这对计算多要素生产率的方法来说是稳健的。版权所有1996年美国经济协会。
This paper examines the role of sectors in aggregate convergence for fourteen OECD countries during 1970-87. The major finding is that manufacturing shows little evidence of either labor productivity or multifactor productivity convergence, while other sectors, especially services, are driving the aggregate convergence result. To determine the robustness of the convergence results, the paper introduces a new measure of multifactor productivity which avoids many problems inherent to traditional measures of total factor productivity when comparing productivity levels. The lack of convergence in manufacturing is robust to the method of calculating multifactor productivity. Copyright 1996 by American Economic Association.