TY  - BOOK
AU  - Griliches,Zvi
AU  - Mairesse,Jacques
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Comparing Productivity Growth: An Exploration of French and U.S. Industrial and Firm Data 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 1982///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - August 1982; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w0961
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w0961
ER  -