Manufacturing Productivity Growth across European Union States: 1978 – 94

This paper uses plant-level estimates of total factor productivity covering 40 years to examine what role, if any, productivity has played in the decline of output share and employment in British manufacturing. The results show that TFP growth in British manufacturing was negative between 1973 and 1982, marginally positive between 1982 and 1994 and strongly positive between 1994 and 2012. Poor TFP performance therefore does not appear to be the main cause of the decline of UK manufacturing. Productivity growth decompositions show that, in the latter period, the largest contributions to TFP growth come from foreign-owned plants, industries that are heavily involved in trade, and industries with high levels of intangible assets.

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Manufacturing Productivity Growth in American Economic History

The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History, vol. 1 ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190882617.013.9 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 212-234 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alexander J. Field

Keyword(s):

World War I ◽

Productivity Growth ◽

Economic History ◽

Manufacturing Sector ◽

The United States ◽

First Century ◽

World War ◽

The Great Depression ◽

Manufacturing Productivity ◽

Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

This chapter provides an overview of labor and total factor productivity growth in the manufacturing sector in the United States from colonial times to the present. An introductory section defines concept and terms. This is followed by an historical survey of improvement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and sections on the manufacturing revolution of the 1920s and the sector’s contribution during the Great Depression. The remainder of the chapter provides a quantitative perspective on manufacturing productivity growth and its contribution to the overall economy from the end of World War I through the first decade of the twenty-first century.

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LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE IN AGRICULTURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues ◽

10.32479/ijefi.8041 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 11-17

Author(s):

Zbigniew Gołaś

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Productivity Growth ◽

Labour Productivity ◽

The European Union ◽

Labour Productivity Growth

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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in US Manufacturing

The American Economic Review ◽

10.1257/aer.104.5.394 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 104 (5) ◽

pp. 394-399 ◽

Cited By ~ 53

Author(s):

Daron Acemoglu ◽

David Autor ◽

David Dorn ◽

Gordon H. Hanson ◽

Brendan Price

Keyword(s):

Productivity Growth ◽

Manufacturing Industries ◽

Technological Changes ◽

Limited Support ◽

Manufacturing Productivity ◽

It Productivity

An increasingly influential 'technological-discontinuity' paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using US manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT-intensive industries depending on the exact measures, though not since the late 1990s. Most challenging to this paradigm, and to our expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment.

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Spain: A Success Story Shadowed Only by a Poor Productivity Performance

National Institute Economic Review ◽

10.1177/0027950107080392 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 200 ◽

pp. 87-95

Author(s):

Matilde Mas ◽

Javier Quesada

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Productivity Growth ◽

Construction Sector ◽

The European Union ◽

Success Story ◽

Spanish Economy ◽

Multifactor Productivity ◽

Service Sectors ◽

Almost All ◽

Very High

Since joining the European Union in 1986, the performance of the Spanish economy has been quite remarkable, acting as a good example for new entrants of what can be accomplished in twenty years. Its ability to generate employment has been astonishing. Departing from an environment of very high unemployment (close to 25 per cent), Spain has become the country of destination most preferred by immigrants. However, it has also had a scant productivity performance. The main burden on productivity growth lies with the construction sector and almost all private service sectors with the unique exception of the financial sector. Most likely, over the next years, the continuity of the Spanish success will require a reversal of the sources of growth, shifting from labour creation to improvements in multifactor productivity.

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