New developments in productivity analysis / edited by Charles R. Hulten, Edwin R. Dean, Michael J. Harper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hulten, Charles R.

Dean, Edwin.

Harper, Michael J.

Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.

Series:

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 63.

NBER studies in income and wealth ; v. 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial productivity--Congresses.

Industrial productivity.

Economic development--Congresses.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (648 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The productivity slowdown of the 1970's and 1980's and the resumption of productivity growth in the 1990's 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 state-of-the-art exposition of contemporary productivity analysis. Charles R. Hulten is professor of economics at the University of Maryland. He has been a senior research associate at the Urban Institute and is chair of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Michael Harper is chief of the Division of Productivity Research at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Edwin R. Dean, formerly associate commissioner for Productivity and Technology at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is adjunct professor of economics at The George Washington University.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Prefatory Note

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

10. Service Sector Productivity Comparisons: Lessons for Measurement

11. 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

Notes:

"National Bureau of Economic Research, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth"--P. facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611125752

9781281125750

128112575X

9780226360645

0226360644

OCLC:

476228794