Italyâ€™s decline: getting the facts right

Posted on December 14, 2006
Filed Under Economic/Business news, Economics/Business education, Macroeconomics |

According to Franceso Daveri Italy is experiencing decline. Abstract:”The Italian economy is often said to be on a declining path. In this paper, we document that: (i) Italyâ€™s current decline is a labor productivity problem (ii) the labor productivity slowdown stems from declining productivity growth in all industries but utilities (with manufacturing contributing for about one half of the reduction) and diminished interindustry reallocation of workers from agriculture to market services; (iii) the labor productivity slowdown has been mostly driven by declining TFP, with roughly unchanged capital deepening. The only mild decline of capital deepening is due to the rise in the value added share of capital that counteracted declining capital accumulation”.

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