Output Measurement in the Service Sectors
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2008
576 pages
978-0-226-30889-0 (ISBN)
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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.
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Content
- Intro
- Output Measurement in the Service Sectors
- Contents
- Prefatory Note
- Introduction
- 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
- 2. Productivity Measurement in Service Industries
- 3. Improvements in Measuring Price Changes in Consumer Services: Past, Present, and Future
- II. Alternative Approaches
- 4. Productivity in the Distributive Trades: The Shopper and the Economies of Massed Reserves
- 5. The Real Output of the Stock Exchange
- IIIA. Measuring the Output of Banking and Other Services
- 6. User Costs, Shadow Prices, and the Real Output of Banks
- 7. Measurement and Efficiency Issues in Commercial Banking
- IIIB. Selected Industries
- 8. The Output of the Education Sector
- 9. Measurement of Output and Quality Adjustment in the Day-Care Industry
- 10. Productivity in the Transportation Sector
- 11. Purchased Services, Outsourcing, Computers, and Productivity in Manufacturing
- 12. Dispersion and Heterogeneity of Firm Performances in Nine French Service Industries, 1984-1987
- IV. International Aspects
- 13. Measuring Final Product Services for International Comparisons
- 14. Measuring Public-Sector Output: The Swedish Report
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
