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Productivity in Business Services

In: Business Services in European Economic Growth

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  • Dirk Pilat

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The need for a stronger and more dynamic services sector arises primarily from the growing weight of services in OECD economies. If policy makers wish to strengthen the basis for future growth in OECD countries, the services sector will need to make a larger contribution than is currently the case. The experience of several OECD countries shows that this is feasible; in Australia, Canada, Luxembourg, the Slovak Republic and the United States, the services sector has made a large contribution to both employment and productivity growth over the past decade (Wölfl, 2005). In other countries, such as France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, the contribution of services to productivity growth has been low, however (OECD, 2005a).

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  • Dirk Pilat, 2007. "Productivity in Business Services," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Luis Rubalcaba & Henk Kox (ed.), Business Services in European Economic Growth, chapter 3, pages 62-73, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-22879-5_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230228795_4
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    1. Kox, Henk L.M. & Rubalcaba, Luis, 2007. "Business services and the changing structure of European economic growth," MPRA Paper 3750, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. José A. Camacho & Mercedes Rodriguez, 2010. "How Important are Knowledge-Intensive Services for their Client Industries? An Assessment of their Impact on Productivity and Innovation," Chapters, in: Faïz Gallouj & Faridah Djellal (ed.), The Handbook of Innovation and Services, chapter 18, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. Matthias Figo & Peter Mayerhofer, 2015. "Strukturwandel und regionales Wachstum - wissensintensive Unternehmensdienste als Wachstumsmotor?," Working Paper Reihe der AK Wien - Materialien zu Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 145, Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien, Abteilung Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Statistik.
    4. Peter Mayerhofer & Matthias Firgo, 2015. "Wissensintensive Unternehmensdienste, Wissens-Spillovers und regionales Wachstum. Teilprojekt 2: Strukturwandel und regionales Wachstum – Wissensintensive Unternehmensdienste als "Wachstumsmotor&," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 58503, January.

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