| Автор | Wyckoff, Andrew W. |
| Дата выпуска | 1995 |
| dc.description | This paper analyses the international comparability of methods used to convert the value added of the office and computing machinery sector (OCM) into constant prices for nine OECD countries. It concludes that the variations which exist in the price indexes are largely due to differences in the methods countries use to capture changes in the quality of an industry's output over time. The paper evaluates the impact of these different OCM price indexes on the growth rate of labour productivity during the 1980s by conducting a sensitivity test where the US OCM index is substituted for each of the individual country indexes. This experiment causes the OCM labour productivity growth rate to change by over a factor of ten for several countries. This result suggests that international comparisons of labour productivity should not be made for the OCM sector using the official data, and that labour productivity comparisons of sectors OCM belongs to—non-electrical machinery and fabricated metal products and machinery—should be conducted cautiously, if at all. |
| Формат | application.pdf |
| Издатель | OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) |
| Копирайт | Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC |
| Тема | Hedonic price indexes |
| Тема | labour productivity |
| Тема | office & computer equipment J.E.L. Classification Codes: |
| Тема | L63—Computers |
| Тема | O47—Aggregate Productivity |
| Тема | O57—Comparative Studies of Countries |
| Название | The Impact Of Computer Prices On International Comparisons Of Labour Productivity |
| Тип | research-article |
| DOI | 10.1080/10438599500000007 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1476-8364 |
| Print ISSN | 1043-8599 |
| Журнал | Economics of Innovation and New Technology |
| Том | 3 |
| Первая страница | 277 |
| Последняя страница | 293 |
| Аффилиация | Wyckoff, Andrew W.; <sup>a</sup> Industry, Telecommunications, US Senate Washington, DC, 20510Commerce Program Office of Technology Assessment |
| Выпуск | 3-4 |
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