Format:
Online-Ressource (648 p.)
ISBN:
9780226360621
Series Statement:
NBER-Studies in Income and Wealth v.63
Content:
The productivity slowdown of the 1970s and 1980s and the resumption of productivity growth in the 1990s have provoked controversy among policymakers and researchers. Economists have been forced to reexamine fundamental questions of measurement technique. Some researchers argue that econometric approaches to productivity measurement usefully address shortcomings of the dominant index number techniques while others maintain that current productivity statistics underreport damage to the environment. In this book, the contributors propose innovative approaches to these issues. The result is a stat
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Contents; Prefatory Note and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Total Factor Productivity: A Short Biography; 2. The BLS Productivity Measurement Program; 3. Which (Old) Ideas on Productivity Measurement Are Ready to Use?; 4. Dynamic Factor Demand Models and Productivity Analysis; 5. After "Technical Progress and the Aggregate Production Function"; 6. Accounting for Growth; 7. Why Is Productivity Procyclical? Why Do We Care?; 8. Aggregate Productivity Growth: Lessons from Microeconomic Evidence; 9. Sources of Productivity Growth in the American Coal Industry: 1972-95
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10. Service Sector Productivity Comparisons: Lessons for Measurement11. Different Approaches to International Comparison of Total Factor Productivity; 12. Whatever Happened to Productivity Growth?; 13. Productivity of the U.S. Agricultural Sector: The Case of Undesirable Outputs; 14. Total Resource Productivity: Accounting for Changing Environmental Quality; 15. A Perspective on What We Know About the Sources of Productivity Growth; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226360645
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226360621
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe New Developments in Productivity Analysis
Language:
English
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