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Working Paper Series no. 156: Trends in "structural" productivity levels in the major industrialized countries

Abstract

Estimating returns to hours worked and the employment rate provides us with an original interpretation of changes in US productivity and other industrialized countries' catch-up with US productivity levels over recent decades.

Renaud Bourlès and Gilbert Cette
September 2006

Classification JEL : J24, E24, F01 .

Keywords : Productivity, Employment rate, Working time, Technical frontier.

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Working Paper Series no. 156: Trends in "structural" productivity levels in the major industrialized countries
  • Published on 09/01/2006
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