Productivity Measurement and Analysis [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Federal Statistical Office.
Dupont, Julien.
Sollberger, Pierre A.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2009.
Productivity measurement and analysis are the main topics addressed in this book, which brings together contributions presented and discussed in two international workshops organized by the Statistics Directorate and the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI) of the OECD. The first workshop was organised jointly by the OECD with Fundaccion BBVA and the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas and held in Madrid in October 2005, and the second one was organized jointly by the OECD and the Swiss Federal Statistical Office and the State Secretary for Economic Affairs of Switzerland and held in Bern in October 2006. The two workshops brought together representatives of statistical offices, central banks and other branches of government in OECD countries that are engaged in the analysis and the measurement of productivity developments at aggregate and industry levels.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
Are those Who Bring Work Home Really Working Longer Hours? -- Main Sources of Quarterly Labour Productivity Data for the Euro Area -- U.S. Quarterly Productivity Measures -- Changes in Human Capital -- Labour Input Productivity -- Introduction -- International Comparisons of Levels of Capital Input and Multi-Factor Productivity -- Empirical Analysis of the Effects of R&D on Productivity -- OECD Workshops on Productivity Analysis and Measurement -- Productivity Growth and Innovation in OECD -- Research and Development as a Value Creating Asset -- Infrastructures and New Technologies -- The Role of ICT on the Spanish Productivity Slowdown -- Multi-Factor Productivity Measurement -- Productivity Measurement at Statistics Netherlands -- New Technologies and the Growth of Capital Services -- Innovation and Labour Productivity Growth in Switzerland -- Sectoral Productivity in the United States -- On the Importance of Using Comparable Labour Input to Make International Comparison of Productivity Levels -- Shopping With Friends Give More Fun; How Competition, Innovation and Productivity Relate in Dutch Retail Trade -- Labour Productivity Based on Integrated Labour Accounts -- Estimates of Industry Level Multifactor Productivity in Australia -- Economic Growth in Sweden, New Measurements -- Estimates of Labor and Total Factor Productivity by 72 Industries in Korea (1970–2003) -- List of Contributors.
Productivity measurement and analysis are the main topics addressed in this book, which brings together contributions presented and discussed in two international workshops organized by the Statistics Directorate and the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI) of the OECD. The first workshop was organised jointly by the OECD with Fundaccion BBVA and the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas and held in Madrid in October 2005, and the second one was organized jointly by the OECD and the Swiss Federal Statistical Office and the State Secretary for Economic Affairs of Switzerland and held in Bern in October 2006. The two workshops brought together representatives of statistical offices, central banks and other branches of government in OECD countries that are engaged in the analysis and the measurement of productivity developments at aggregate and industry levels.
Economics