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Stagnation of productivity in France:A legacy of the crisis or a structural slowdown?
The productivity slowdown has been analysed either as an effect of the crisis, resulting from the financial and demand shocks, or as a more structural decline. In France, using macroeconomic and microeconomic data, we identify downward breaks in the trends of labour productivity and total factor productivity in the 2000s, several years before the crisis. ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS N° 494-495-496, 2017
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