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An article in the National Institute Economic Review in May 1969 described the first results of an inquiry on which the National Institute has been engaged since 1967, in collaboration with research institutes in a number of other countries, into the diffusion of new technology in industry. Ten techniques were originally studied, of which eight were subsequently selected for investigation in greater depth. These included the use of the shuttleless loom in weaving (discussed in a Review article in August last year) and of the tunnel kiln in brickmaking, with which the present article is concerned.

This paper presents some results derived from a wider National Institute study of labour productivity differentials in non-service activities in the British, American and German economies, to be published as a NIESR Occasional Paper during the autumn 1982. For the most part the present paper focuses on the international labour productivity differentials which emerge at the major sector level—for agriculture, extractive industries, manufacturing, construction, public utilities and transport. The complete study will also consider productivity differentials for component activities in these sectors and seek some explanation of contrasts in international industrial performance in terms of such factors as capital intensity, market size, rates of growth, labour force quality etc.