Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A Framework without Assumptions -- Chapter 3: Capital Input Cost -- Chapter 4: Annual and Quarterly Measures -- Chapter 5: Dynamics: The Bottom-Up Approach -- Chapter 6: The Top-Down Approach 1 - Aggregate Output and Simple Labour Productivity Indices --...

This paper shows how revealed preference relations, observed under general budget sets, can be extended using closure operators which impose certain assumptions on preferences. Common extensions are based on the assumption that preferences are convex and/or monotonic, but we also consider...

Economists who use survey or administrative data for inferences regarding a population may want to combine information obtained from two or more samples drawn from the population. This is the case if there is no single sample that contains all relevant variables. A special case occurs if...

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...