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Productivity in the U.S. services sector : new sources of economic growth / Jack E. Triplett, Barry P. Bosworth.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Triplett, Jack E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Service industries--Labor productivity--United States.
- Service industries.
- Industrial productivity--United States--Measurement.
- Industrial productivity.
- Measurement.
- Service industries--Labor productivity.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 401 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- In their new book, Brookings economists Jack Triplett and Barry Bosworth analyze developments in services sector productivity and demonstrate the fundamental changes that have taken place in this part of the U.S. economy.
- Contents:
- 2 Overview: Industry Productivity Trends
- Comment: Discussion of Productivity Trends and Measurement Issues in Services Industries / Kevin J. Stiroh 41
- 3 Output and Productivity in the Transportation Sector 46
- 4 Output and Productivity Growth in the Communications Industry 71
- Comment: Discussion of the Transportation and Communications Industries / Robert J. Gordon 87
- 5 Overview: Productivity and Measurement in the Finance and Insurance Sector 95
- 6 Price, Output, and Productivity of Insurance: Conceptual Issues 123
- 7 Measuring Banking and Finance: Conceptual Issues 177
- Comment: Discussion of Banking Output / David Humphrey 211
- Comment: Discussion of Output Measurement in the Insurance and the Banking and Finance Industries / Dennis Fixler 217
- Reply to Dennis Fixler 230
- 8 Output and Productivity in Retail Trade 233
- Comment: Discussion of Output and Productivity in Retail Trade / Brian T. Ratchford 251
- 9 Output and Productivity in Other Services 256
- 10 High-Tech Capital Equipment: Inputs to Services Industries 274
- 11 Data Needs 321
- A Industry Productivity Accounts, 1987-2001 339
- B Workshops in the Brookings Program on Output and Productivity Measurement in the Services Sector 365.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-388) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0815783353
- OCLC:
- 55671426
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