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The study ‘Understanding the EU-US labour productivity gap: #1 - The broad perspective’ updates the picture of the labour productivity gap between the US and the EU, highlighting why the gap exists, how it differs across countries, and the main factors behind it. It is the first in a series of three focusing on the comparative analysis of labour productivity in the EU and the US.

This is the 2nd study published on productivity. It was commissioned by the European Employers’ Institute (EEI), of which FIEC is a founding member, and conducted by Rexecode (France) to provide a detailed country- and sector-level analysis of the EU–US productivity gap over the 1995–2019 period.

The findings show that the core EU economies – Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands – are the main contributors to the EU’s slower productivity growth, despite their strong overall contribution to the European economy.

Full EEI Press Release available at this link.
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