Output measurement in the service sectors / edited by Zvi Griliches with the assistance of Ernst R. Berndt, Timothy F. Bresnahan, and Marilyn E. Manser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Griliches, Zvi, 1930-1999.

Berndt, Ernst R.

Bresnahan, Timothy F.

Manser, Marilyn.

Series:

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 56.

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Service industries--Labor productivity--United States.

Service industries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (576 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Is the fall in overall productivity growth in the United States and other developed countries related to the rising share of the service sectors in the economy? Since services represent well over half of the U.S. gross national product, it is also important to ask whether these sectors have had a slow rate of growth, as this would act as a major drag on the productivity growth of the overall economy and on its competitive performance. In this timely volume, leading experts from government and academia argue that faulty statistics have prevented a clear understanding of these issues.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Prefatory Note

Introduction / Griliches, Zvi

I. What Is Being Done

1. Recent and Planned Improvements in the Measurement and Deflation of Services Outputs and Inputs in BEA's Gross Product Originating Estimates / Mohr, Michael F.

2. Productivity Measurement in Service Industries / Kunze, Kent / Dean, Edwin R.

3. Improvements in Measuring Price Changes in Consumer Services: Past, Present, and Future / Ginsburg, Daniel H. / Armknecht, Paul A.

II. Alternative Approaches

4. Productivity in the Distributive "kades: The Shopper and the Economies of Massed Reserves / Oi, Walter Y.

5. The Real Output of the Stock Exchange / Paul, Jonathan / Milgrom, Paul / Bresnahan, Timothy F.

III A. Measuring the Output of Banking and Other Services

6. User Costs, Shadow Prices, and the Real Output of Banks / Zieschang, Kimberly D. / Fixler, Dennis J.

7. Measurement and Efficiency Issues in Issues in Commercial Banking / Humphrey, David B. / Berger, Allen N.

III B. Selected Industries

8. The Output of the Education Sector / Fraumeni, Barbara M. / Jorgenson, Dale W.

9. Measurement of Output and Quality Adjustment in the Day-care Industry / Witte, Ann Dryden / Mukerjee, Swati

10. Productivity in the Transportation Sector / Gordon, Robert J.

11. Purchased Services, Outsourcing, Computers, and Productivity in Manufacturing / Griliches, Zvi / Siegel, Donald

12. Dispersion and Heterogeneity of Firm Performances in Nine French Service Industries, 1984-1987 / Mairesse, Jacques / Kremp, Elizabeth

IV. International Aspects

13. Measuring Final Product Services for International Comparisons / Summers, Robert / Heston, Alan

14. Measuring Public-Sector Output: The Swedish Report / Murray, Richard

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611430368

9781281430366

1281430366

9780226308890

0226308898

OCLC:

476228862