. To analyze the impact of “free” content on measured private business total factor productivity (TFP) growth, we account …

This chapter reviews the theory underlying the index number approaches used by National Statistical Offices in the … construction of productivity indexes. It covers approaches for measuring output, labour and capital and highlights persistent and … emerging measurement problems. …

This chapter covers the theory and methods for productivity measurement for nations. Labor, multifactor and total … factor productivity growth (TFPG) index. These are easiest to understand for the case in which the index number problem is … factor productivity measures are defined and are related to each other and to gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Their …