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Productivity : What is It? How is it Measured? What has Canada's Performance Been?

Baldwin, John R. - 2009

This paper was prepared for the National Statistics Council, which advises the chief statistician of Canada on the full range of Statistics Canada's activities, particularly on overall program priorities

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Multifactor Productivity in Canada : An Evaluation of Alternative Methods of Estimating Capital Services

Baldwin, John R. - 2009

This paper examines the effects of alternative specifications of the user costs of capital on the estimated price and volume indices of capital services. It asks how sensitive the results are to the use of exogenous versus endogenous rates of return, to alternate ways of including capital gains,...

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Investment and Long-term Productivity Growth in the Canadian Business Sector, 1961 to 2002

Baldwin, John R. - 2009

This paper employs the databases that are used to construct Statistics Canada's Productivity Accounts to examine the sources of growth in the Canadian economy and the history of productivity growth in Canada over the period 1961 to 2002. It makes use of a new time series using the North American...

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Produktivitätsunterschiede zwischen Unternehmen in Deutschland : ein Literaturüberblick

Stühmeier, Torben - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 99 (2019) 7, pp. 477-482

Die Produktivität wächst in vielen Industriestaaten mit abnehmender Rate. Gleichzeitig entwickelt sich die Produktivität zwischen einzelnen Unternehmen auch in eng begrenzten Wirtschaftsbereichen unterschiedlich. Gibt es zwischen diesen beiden Entwicklungen Zusammenhänge? Es zeigt sich, dass...

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Measuring Capital Services by Energy Use: An Empirical Comparative Study

Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan - 2013

From an engineering perspective, a capital good's service is energy conversion - e.g., the physical 'work' done by a machine - and can thus be measured directly by the energy consumed in production. We show important empirical advantages of our concept over traditional measures. The empirical...

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Measuring capital services by energy use : an empirical comparative study

Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan - 2013

From an engineering perspective, a capital good’s service is energy conversion - e.g., the physical 'work' done by a machine - and can thus be measured directly by the energy consumed in production. We show important empirical advantages of our concept over traditional measures. The empirical...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733475

ICT Capital and Productivity Growth

Strauß, Hubert - 2012

ICT capital is an important driver of productivity growth. Using data from the EUKLEMS growth accounts, we show that … ICT has made smaller contributions to labour productivity growth in the EU-15 than in the US, both at the macro level and …, the growth contributions from ICT are found to be smaller than those from TFP. However, our empirical analysis suggests …

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Growth in euro area labour quality

Schwerdt, Guido; Turunen, Jarkko - 2006

Composition of the euro area workforce evolves over time and in response to changing labour market conditions. We construct an estimate of growth in euro area labour quality over the period 1983-2004 and show that labour quality has grown on average by 0.6% year-on-year over this time period....

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The contribution of intangible assets to sectoral productivity growth in the EU

Niebel, Thomas; O'Mahony, Mary; Saam, Marianne - 2013

In this paper we report on new data on intangible investment at the level of 1-digit NACE industries of 10 EU countries. The data are constructed as a sectoral breakdown of the INTANInvest database, which contains measures of intangible investment at the level of the aggregate business sector....

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ICT and productivity : a review of the literature

Biagi, Federico - 2013

In this report we review the literature on the relationship between ICT and productivity. In Sect. 1 we discuss in … broad terms the theoretical relationship between ICT and productivity, while in Sect. 2 we present the growth accounting … methodology, which tries to measure the contributions to growth from difference sources (ICT and non ICT capital, human capital …

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