作者：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Minnesota State Colleges & Universities; Minnesota State University Moorhead; University of North Carolina; East Carolina University; Johns Hopkins University; University of Massachusetts System; University Massachusetts Dartmouth; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
作者：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
作者：Academia Sinica - Taiwan
作者：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
作者：University of Warwick; University of Manchester
摘要：A sectoral analysis of comparative labor productivity levels over the period 1870 to 1990 suggests mechanisms of catching-up and forging ahead that are rather different from those found in the conventional literature. Both Germany and the United States caught up with and overtook Britain in terms of aggregate labor productivity largely by shifting resources out of agriculture and improving their relative productivity position in services rather than by improving their position in manufacturing...
作者：Columbia University; National Bureau of Economic Research
