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Productivity differences in Hungary and mechanisms of TFP growth slowdown

Muraközy, Balázs; Bisztray, Márta; Reizer, Balázs - Europäische Kommission / Unit European Semester and … - 2018

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Productivity measurement, R&D assets and mark-ups in OECD countries

Schreyer, Paul; Zinni, Belen - 2018

A key feature of the 2008 revision of the System of National Accounts was the treatment of R&D expenditure as investment. The question arises whether the standard approach towards accounting for growth contribution of assets is justified given the special nature of R&D that provides capital...

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Measuring consumer inflation in a digital economy

Reinsdorf, Marshall B.; Schreyer, Paul - 2019

The effect on the household consumption price index from possible sources of error in capturing digital products depends on the weight of the affected products. To calculate upper bounds for this effect, we apply weights based on the average structure of household consumption in OECD countries...

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Digital dividend : policies to harness the productivity potential of digital technologies

Sorbe, Stéphane; Gál, Peter; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; … - 2019

This paper presents a range of policies to enhance adoption of digital technologies and firm productivity. It quantifies illustratively the effect of policy changes by combining the results of two recent OECD analyses on the drivers of adoption and their productivity benefits. Increasing access...

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Achieving strong and balanced regional development in India

Joumard, Isabelle; Morgavi, Hermes; Bourrousse, Hugo - 2017

While India’s per capita income is converging towards that of the richer countries, inequality has drifted up. Spatial inequality – across states and between urban and rural areas – is pronounced, with large differences in output per capita and in access to core public services, such as...

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Boosting productivity for inclusive growth in Japan

Jones, Randall Sidney; Jin, Yosuke - 2017

Never in the past 30 years has productivity growth been lower than since the 2008 global financial crisis, and never has income inequality been higher than it is today in Japan, and in the OECD area. The two challenges have some common origins, including a widening productivity and wage gap...

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Improving productivity in New Zealand's economy

Barker, Andrew - 2017

diminish its access to global markets, the scale and efficiency of domestic businesses, the level of competition, and the …

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Adapting to the changing labour market in New Zealand

Carey, David - 2017

Technological change is increasing the productivity of highly skilled workers but creating more challenging labour-market conditions for their low-skilled counterparts. These pressures are likely to grow, especially in light of progress being made in Artificial Intelligence. The NZ labour force...

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Can potential mismeasurement of the digital economy explain the post-crisis slowdown in GDP and productivity growth?

Ahmad, Nadim; Ribarsky, Jennifer; Reinsdorf, Marshall B. - 2017

The digital economy has created some new measurement challenges for macroeconomic statistics and may have exacerbated some older ones, raising some concerns about the scope and estimation of GDP. Against a backdrop of slowing rates of measured productivity growth, this has raised questions about...

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Evaluating dynamics, sources and drivers of productivity growth at the farm level

Bokuševa, Raušan; Čechura, Lukáš - 2017

efficiency. Technical change was found to be major source of productivity growth for most country samples for the two analysed … support payments were found to negatively influence crop farm productivity and efficiency of input use. More decoupled … payments appear to be less distorting than other forms of support. A meta-level analysis of allocative efficiency shows that …

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