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Growth and Productivity Accounts From Eu Klems: an Overview

Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen

Mary O'Mahony

University of Birmingham and National Institute of Economic and Social Research, m.omahony{at}bham.ac.uk

Bart van Ark

Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen

This paper gives an overview of the construction of and preliminary results from the EU KLEMS database which contains industry estimates of output, input and productivity growth for EU countries. The paper begins with a discussion of methodology and data sources covering output and intermediates, capital and labour services. The content and scope of the database is then briefly described. This is followed by a discussion of preliminary results focusing on comparisons between the EU and US. These confirm the relatively poor productivity performance of the EU relative to the US since the mid-1990s, mostly driven by low productivity growth in market services.

Key Words: Productivity • growth accounting • national accounts

National Institute Economic Review, Vol. 200, No. 1, 64-78 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/00279501072000010801


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