Productivity

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STAN STructural ANalysis Database

English

14-Feb-2011

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

English

11-Jan-2010

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

English

11-Jan-2010

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

English

11-Jan-2010

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 ...

The real economy and the crisis: revisiting productivity fundamentals

English

30-Apr-2009

Discussions about the current crisis often present events in a sequence, such as that the US sub-prime crisis in August 2007 triggered a major inter-bank credit crisis, which transformed itself into a ...

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

English

14-May-2007

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

Sources for Employment and Hours worked

xls,68Kb,English

06-Feb-2012

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

pdf,48Kb,English

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 Total Non-residential GFCF

xls,144Kb,English

08-Feb-2010

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

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

English

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

English

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 ...

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

pdf,370Kb,English

01-Sep-2011

Chapter 2, pp. 13-40 in W.E. Diewert, B.M. Balk, D. Fixler, K.J. Fox and A.O. Nakamura (2010), PRICE AND PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT: Volume 6 -- Index Number Theory. Trafford Press. - This paper examined ...

Measuring Capital: OECD Manual 2009, Second Edition

English

18-Sep-2009

This document is a revision of the 2001 Manual, to take account of new developments and to ensure consistency with the revised System of National Accounts.

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

xls,122Kb,English

08-Jan-2008

OECD Productivity Database: Calculation of Multi-Factor Productivity Growth

pdf,150Kb,English

15-Apr-2004

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

English

20-Dec-2003

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

Statistics Working Paper N. 9 - 2003/6 - This paper presents the concepts underlying capital services measures, describes estimation methods and produces a first set of results. It also raises a number ...

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

pdf,993Kb,English

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...