Productivity

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STructural ANalysis (STAN) Database

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27-May-2008

The STAN database provides analysts and researchers with a comprehensive tool for analysing industrial performance at a relatively detailed level of activity across countries.

Labour Productivity Growth - Data: GDP, Annual Hours Worked, Total Employment, Total Hours Worked, GDP per Hour Worked

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30-Jul-2007

Labour productivity is defined as GDP per hour worked; where GDP for each country refers to its Gross Domestic Product, in national currency, at constant prices, OECD base year 2000, and output for country ...

Labour Productivity Levels - Data: GDP, Annual Hours Worked, Total Employment, Total Hours Worked, GDP per Hour Worked

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30-Jul-2007

Estimates of productivity levels and GDP per capita permit the comparison of standards of living and underlying factors across countries. The OECD estimates are based on GDP and employment from the OECD ...

GDP per Capita - Data: Breakdown of GDP in its components and differentials in GDP per Capita and their Decomposition

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30-Jul-2007

Estimates of productivity levels and GDP per capita permit the comparison of standards of living and underlying factors across countries. The OECD estimates are based on GDP and employment from the OECD ...

Labour Productivity by Broad Economic Activity - Data derived from OECD System of Unit Labour Costs Indicators

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14-May-2007

Annual labour productivity series by broad economic activity (total economy, manufacturing, industry, construction, trade transport & communication, finance & business services, market services, ...

Data Sources for GDP, Employment and Hours worked

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13-Oct-2006

Estimates of labour productivity require consistent estimates of total hours worked across countries. This file shows, for each country and each year, the sources of data used for calculating the estimates of employment and hours worked for the labour productivity growths.

OECD Measures of Total Hours Worked

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15-Mar-2004

According to the 1993 System of National Accounts (SNA93), total hours actually worked is the preferred aggregate measure of labour input for productivity analysis, as it reflects the volume of work engaged ...

Investment Data and Shares of ICT Investment in GDP and Total Non-residential GFCF

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08-Jan-2008

Estimates of investment levels and shares of ICT investment in GDP and in total non residential Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) permit the comparison of ICT investment across countries. The OECD ...

MFP based on Harmonised Price Indices for ICT Capital Goods, Capital Input, Cost Shares, Total factor Input

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30-Jul-2007

This file presents the Multi-factor Productivity for the total economy, computed as the difference between the rate of change of output and the rate of change of total inputs, and presented as a rate of ...

Capital Services by Type of Asset Based on Harmonised Price Indices for ICT Capital Goods

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30-Jul-2007

Capital services represent the capital input into production for the total economy. Presented as rates of change, they relate to the total economy, broken down by six types of assets. Price indices for ...

Information on Data Received from National Statistical Offices for Capital Services Computations

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08-Jan-2008

OECD Productivity Database: Calculation of Multi-Factor Productivity Growth

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15-Apr-2004

Note of Multi-Factor Measurement When Rates of Return are Exogenous

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15-Mar-2004

Paper presented at the Workshop on Rethinking Total Factor Productivity Measurement. 27-28 October 2003, Ottawa, Canada

OECD Capital Services Estimates: Methodology and a First Set of Results

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20-Dec-2003

by Paul Schreyer, Pierre-Emmanuel Bignon and Julien Dupont (OECD)

This Statistics Working Paper 2003/6 presents the concepts underlying capital services measures, describes estimation methods and produces a first set of results. It also raises a number of outstanding conceptual issues in relation to capital services measures.

OECD Manual - Measuring Productivity: Measurement of Aggregate and Industry-Level Productivity Growth

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28-Mar-2001

Measures of productivity growth constitute core indicators for the analysis and prospects of economic growth. However, there are many different approaches towards productivity measurement and their calculation and interpretation needs careful con...