role is increasing, its economic share and rate of productivity growth is relatively slow compared with that of other …

This article puts forward three priority areas for future productivity research. It first identifies important data … lead to biased multifactor productivity growth estimates. It then highlights the health and education sectors as a focus … for future productivity research, given the challenges of capturing quality change in these sectors as well as the public …

This article identifies health care, intangible capital, and the high-tech sector as priority areas for productivity … account for health care can play for productivity measurement. Regarding intangible capital, it stresses the importance of …

priority areas for productivity research. It highlights three hard-to-measure sectors for special attention: health, education … implications for the measurement of inputs and outputs at the sectoral level and hence for productivity estimates. …

The measurement of productivity is a complex task. The OECD has recently released a comprehensive manual or guide to … the measurement of industry-level and aggregate productivity. In the fifth article, Paul Schreyer from the OECD and the … author of the OECD productivity manual provides an overview of the manual. He highlights a number of the key issues addressed …

structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …