Aggregate and Industry-Level Productivity Analyses

✍ Scribed by Ali Dogramaci, Nabil R. Adam (auth.), Ali Dogramaci, Nabil R. Adam (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 199
• Series: Studies in Productivity Analysis 2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

1 Ali Dogramaci and Nabil R. Adam 1.1. OVERVIEW With the decline of U.S. productivity growth, interest has surged to under­ stand the behavior of productivity measures through time, the conceptual foundations of productivity analysis, and the linkage between productivity performance and other major forces in the economy. The purpose of this volume is to present a brief overview of some of the concepts used in aggre­ gate and industry-level productivity analyses and the results of some of the recent research in this field. The book is divided into three parts. Part I covers some of the methodo­ logical approaches used in aggregate and industry-level productivity studies. Part II deals with the movement of labor productivity measures through time. The papers in this part of the book study productivity changes as uni­ variate time series and analyze some of the characteristics of the patterns displayed. The papers in Part III address the issues of measurement of capi­ tal, the relation of capital formation to productivity growth, and the rela­ tion of imported intermediate inputs to U.S. productivity performance.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Methodological Issues in Aggregate Productivity Analysis....Pages 7-30
Technological Change and Productivity in Input-Output Analysis and the Potential of Sectoral Optimization Models....Pages 31-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
On the Interpretation of Industry Productivity Indexes....Pages 53-76
The Asymmetric Behavior of Labor Productivity During the Business Cycle....Pages 77-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Technical Change, Capital Investment, and Productivity in U.S. Metalworking Industries....Pages 93-121
The Role of Capital Formation in the Recent Slowdown in Productivity Growth....Pages 122-148
Imported Intermediate Input: Its Impact on Sectoral Productivity in U.S. Manufacturing ....Pages 149-186
Back Matter....Pages 187-195

✦ Subjects

Operations Research/Decision Theory