Authors
Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A Pasurka, Jr
Publication date
2001/8
Journal
Journal of regional science
Volume
41
Issue
3
Pages
381-409
Publisher
Blackwell Publishers Inc
Description
A Malmquist‐Luenberger productivity index is employed to account for both marketed output and the output of pollution abatement activities of U.S. state manufacturing sectors for –1986. The index allows us to decompose the change in productivity into measures of change in efficiency and technical change. By accounting for the change in emissions, average annual productivity growth is 3.6 percent, whereas it is 1.7 percent when emissions are ignored. We also find adjusted productivity growth improved after 1977, and “Frost Belt” states with rapidly growing manufacturing sectors have significantly higher rates of productivity growth than “Sun Belt” states with slow growing manufacturing sectors.
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R Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka, Jr - Journal of regional science, 2001