Productivity Performance of the Service Sectors in European Union Countries

• Authors: Joanna Wyszkowska‑Kuna

Title variants

Produktywność sektora usług w krajach Unii Europejskiej

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Economic development has resulted in structural transformation towards economies based on services, which has raised some concerns about the limited opportunities for sustaining productivity growth. The aim of this paper is to examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the service sector in comparison with total industries and the manufacturing sector, as well as within the service sector. The study is based on the data from the EU‑KLEMS database (2017), and it covers the years 1995–2015. It refers to EU countries, making it possible to carry out a comparative analysis between countries, in particular between the ‘old’ and ‘new’ member states. The study demonstrates that productivity growth in services was significantly lower than in manufacturing, but compared with total industries, the disparity was not significant. Productivity growth was usually higher in the ‘new’ EU countries than in the ‘old’ ones, except for information and communications services, which, on the whole, were the main driving force behind the productivity growth in services.

PL

Rozwój gospodarczy przyczynił się do transformacji strukturalnej w kierunku gospodarek usługowych, co zrodziło obawy związane z możliwościami utrzymania wzrostu produktywności. Celem niniejszej pracy jest zbadanie wzrostu łącznej produktywności czynników produkcji (TFP) w sektorze usług w porównaniu z gospodarką ogółem i sektorem przetwórczym, jak również wewnątrz sektora usług. Badanie przeprowadzono w oparciu o dane pochodzące z bazy EU‑KLEMS (2017) i obejmuje ono lata 1995–2015. Badaniem objęto kraje UE, co daje możliwość analizy porównawczej między krajami, a w szczególności między krajami ‘starej’ i ‘nowej’ UE. Z badania wynika, że wzrost produktywności w usługach był znaczenie niższy niż w przetwórstwie, ale w porównaniu z gospodarką ogółem różnica nie była już znacząca. Wyższy wzrost produktywności notowały kraje nowoprzyjęte do UE niż kraje starej UE, z wyjątkiem usług informatycznych i komunikacyjnych, które ogólnie były siłą napędową wzrostu produktywności w usługach.

Keywords

EN

productivity; TFP; services; EU

PL

produktywność; TFP; usługi; UE; produktywność; TFP; usługi; UE

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 7-22

Dates

published

2019-12-30

Contributors

author

Joanna Wyszkowska‑Kuna

• Ph.D., University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Department of World Economy and European Integration, Lodz, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/cer-2019-0029