TY  - JOUR
AU  - Griliches, Zvi
AU  - Mairesse, Jacques
TI  - Comparing Productivity Growth: An Exploration of French and U.S. Industrial and Firm Data
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 961
PY  - 1982
Y2  - August 1982
DO  - 10.3386/w0961
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0961
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0961.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Zvi Griliches
E-Mail: N/A user is deceased

Jacques Mairesse
CREST (ParisTech-ENSAE)
5, Avenue Henri Le Chatelier
91120 PALAISEAU
FRANCE
Tel: 33-1-41-17-35-50
Fax: 33-1-41-17-76-34
E-Mail: mairesse@ensae.fr
M1  - published as Zvi Griliches, Jacques Mairesse. "Comparing Productivity Growth: An Exploration of French and U.S. Industrial and Firm Data," in Georges de Ménil and Robert J. Gordon, editors, "International Volatility and Economic Growth: The First Ten Years of The International Seminar on Macroeconomics" Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (1991)
Zvi Griliches. "Comparing Productivity Growth: An Exploration of French and U.S. Industrial and Firm Data," in "R&D and Productivity: The Econometric Evidence" University of Chicago Press (1998)

AB  - This paper compares and analyzes the growth of productivity in the manufacturing industries and firms in France and the U.S. based on newly assembled comparable data sets in both countries. Three explanations of the recent productivity slowdown are reviewed: shortfall in physical investment, rise in materials prices, and a decline in the intensity or fecundity of R&D investment, and found not to bear on the differences in productivity growth between and within the two countries, either at the industry or the firm levels.
ER  -