Productivity in the U.S. services sector : new sources of economic growth / Jack E. Triplett, Barry P. Bosworth.

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Triplett, Jack E.
Other Authors: Bosworth, Barry, 1942-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Overview : industry productivity trends
  • Comment : Discussion of productivity trends and measurement issues in services industries / Kevin J. Stiroh
  • 3. Output and productivity in the transportation sector
  • 4. Output and productivity growth in the communications Industry
  • Comment : Discussion of the transportation and communications industries / Robert J. Gordon
  • 5. Overview : productivity and measurement in the finance and insurance sector
  • 6. Price, output, and productivity of insurance : conceptual issues
  • 7. Measuring banking and finance : conceptual issues
  • Comment : Discussion of banking output / David Humphrey
  • Comment : Discussion of output measurement in the insurance and the banking and finance industries / Dennis Fixler
  • Reply to Dennis Fixler
  • 8. Output and productivity in retail trade
  • Comment : Discussion of output and productivity in retail trade / Brian T. Ratchford
  • 9. Output and productivity in other services
  • 10. High-tech capital equipment : inputs to services industries
  • 11. Data needs
  • App. A. Industry productivity accounts, 1987-2001
  • App. B. Workshops in the Brookings program on output and productivity measurement in the services sector.