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The Service Sector: Productivity and Growth pp 177–248Cite as

Structure and Change in Distribution System: An Analysis of Seven OECD Member Countries

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The distribution sector accounts for some 13 per cent of value added in the OECD area and for 16 per cent of total employment. The efficiency of this sector is therefore a matter of concern in its own right. These concerns are made all the greater by the impact which this sector can have on efficiency economy-wide, notably by affecting the extent to which the potential benefits to consumers of domestic and international competition are fully and promptly realised. This report examines the structure and operation of the distribution sector in seven OECD economies: the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden. The discussion is limited to the distribution of goods largely reflecting the fact that services, as usually defined, are not distributed, since their production and consumption is simultaneous; and it is limited to distribution in the sense of commerce, hence excluding those transport activities (such as the operation of freight companies) which provide inputs to distribution as defined here.

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    Furio C. Rosati (Professor in Microeconomics) & Giovanni Tria (Lecturer in Macroeconomics) (Professor in Microeconomics) &  (Lecturer in Macroeconomics)

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Ergas, H. (1995). Structure and Change in Distribution System: An Analysis of Seven OECD Member Countries. In: Felli, E., Rosati, F.C., Tria, G. (eds) The Service Sector: Productivity and Growth. Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49999-9_7

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