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The Service Sector: Productivity and Growth

Proceedings of the International Conference held in Rome, Italy, May 27–28 1993

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Ernesto Felli

    1. Faculty of Economics, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

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  2. Furio C. Rosati

    1. Faculty of Economics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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  3. Giovanni Tria

    1. Faculty of Economics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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Table of contents (11 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-2
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  2. Introductory Remarks

    1. Introductory Remarks

      • Luigi Paganetto
      Pages 3-7

  3. Competitiveness and Productivity: The Link Between Manufacturing and Service Sectors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Producer Services: Their important Role in Growing Economies

      • Herbert G. Grubel
      Pages 11-41

    3. Externalities and the Linkages Between Trade Sector and Manufacturing

      • Ernesto Felli, Giovanni Tria
      Pages 43-67

    4. Industrial Prices, Service Prices and Unemployment in Italy and Germany

      • Paola Manzini, Massimo Tivegna
      Pages 69-101

    5. The Growth of Market Service Sector in Italy

      • Roberto Monducci, Stefano Pisani
      Pages 103-156

    6. Indirect Productivity of Business Services, Through Non-Material Investments

      • Jacques De Bandt
      Pages 157-173

  4. International and Intersectorial Differences in Productivity: Catching-up or Divergence?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Structure and Change in Distribution System: An Analysis of Seven OECD Member Countries

      • Henry Ergas
      Pages 177-248

    3. Does Productivity Converge Across Countries and Across Sectors? Empirical Evidences from Eight OECD Countries

      • Vincenzo Atella, Furio Camillo Rosati
      Pages 249-284

    4. Productivity Growth in Service and Non-Service Industries: Implications for Convergence

      • Henning Klodt
      Pages 285-301

    5. The Comparative Performance of Industrial and Service Firms in the Eighties: An Italian Story

      • Pasquale L. Scandizzo
      Pages 303-333

    6. The Productivity Differential Between Manufacturing and Services in Italy: Technical Progress or Competition Deficit?

      • Guido Pellegrini
      Pages 335-355
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About this book

The economics of the service sector has recently attracted a large attention. At a macroeconomic level, the discussion has been focused on the issues concerning the relationship between the expansion of the service industry and the potential for a stable and sustained growth. Slow productivity growth, due to the largely non tradable nature of the output, lack of competition due either to regulations or to barriers to entry are among the "bads" sometimes associated with a "service led" growth. On the other hand new working places are created in the service industries at a rate much higher than in the industrial ones. Is a lower rate of technological change and the continuing of inflationary tensions the price to pay for a sustained expansion of employment in the service sector? These are in a nutshell the questions that led CElS (Centre for International Studies on Economic Growth - University of Rome "Tor Vergata") to organize the International Seminar on "The Service Sector: Productivity and Growth" held in Rome in May 1993, whose revised proceedings are published in this volume. The economists and academicians invited to the conference have faced the issues mentioned above from different perspectives, but they concentrated especially on the problems relative to growth and productivity.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Economics, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

    Ernesto Felli

  • Faculty of Economics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

    Furio C. Rosati, Giovanni Tria

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Service Sector: Productivity and Growth

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the International Conference held in Rome, Italy, May 27–28 1993

  • Editors: Ernesto Felli, Furio C. Rosati, Giovanni Tria

  • Series Title: Contributions to Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49999-9

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-0875-9Published: 01 August 1995

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-49999-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1933

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 355

  • Topics: R & D/Technology Policy

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