IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/nierev/v142y1992ip63-74_4.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Comparative in British and American Manufacturing

Author

Listed:
  • van Ark, Bart

Abstract

This article presents the results of a benchmark comparison of the relative level of manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom and the United States for 1987. It shows value added per hour worked in the UK at 58 per cent of the corresponding level in the United States. The UK appears to show relatively high productivity levels in basic goods industries, including textiles, chemicals and basic metals. The benchmark results are extrapolated backwards to 1968 and forwards to 1990, showing a narrowing of some ten percentage points of the productivity gap between the two countries. It is also shown that differences in capital intensity account for only a small part of the productivity gap.

Suggested Citation

  • van Ark, Bart, 1992. "Comparative in British and American Manufacturing," National Institute Economic Review, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, vol. 142, pages 63-74, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:nierev:v:142:y:1992:i::p:63-74_4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0027950100029586/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:nierev:v:142:y:1992:i::p:63-74_4. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/niesruk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.