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Manufacturing And The Convergence Hypothesis: What The Long Run Data Show

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  • Broadberry, S. N.

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The commonly accepted chronology for comparative productivity levels based on GDP data does not apply to the manufacturing sector, where there is evidence of a much greater degree of stationarity of comparative labour productivity performance among the major industrialized countries of Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. These results for manufacturing suggest that convergence of GDP per worker must have occurred through trends in other sectors and through compositional effects of structural change. The persistent large labour productivity gap between the US and Europe cannot be explained simply by differences in capital per worker, but is related to technological choice.
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  • Broadberry, S. N., 1992. "Manufacturing And The Convergence Hypothesis: What The Long Run Data Show," Economic Research Papers 268513, University of Warwick - Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uwarer:268513
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.268513
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    Production Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods;

    JEL classification:

    • N10 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - General, International, or Comparative
    • N60 - Economic History - - Manufacturing and Construction - - - General, International, or Comparative
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • O52 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe

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