suggests that low or negative productivity growth rates in several services are linked to measurement problems. Computing …This paper examines recent patterns in productivity growth of service industries and analyses the role of problems in … measuring service productivity growth on industry and aggregate productivity growth. At the aggregate level, unbalanced growth …

We describe new experimental productivity statistics, Dispersion Statistics on Productivity (DiSP), jointly developed … and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Census Bureau. Official BLS productivity statistics provide … information on aggregate productivity growth. Yet, a large body of research shows that within-industry variation in productivity …

Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are … particularly deceptive in the market economy. This recent trend contrasts with the acceleration of productivity during the previous … to have turned productivity more sensitive to the business cycle (and especially to the fall of stock markets). …

productivity and employment growth. …