摘要：After 30 years during which Europe became increasingly prosperous,
its economic performance began to falter in the 1990s. However, within Europe,
economic performance has varied widely. In the large economies, per capita
output grew more slowly than in the United States, whereas some of the smaller
economies–Greece, Luxembourg, and Netherlands–achieved greater success, and
Irish GDP per capita rose from a level below the OECD average to one of the
highest. Some of the reasons for the disparity in growth rates are differences
in labor utilization and labor productivity.
