Productivity Growth

Thijs ten Raa, Utrecht University, the Netherlands and Edward N. Wolff, Professor of Economics, New York University, US

Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Thijs ten Raa and Edward N. Wolff PART I GROWTH ACCOUNTING IN AN INPUTOUTPUT FRAMEWORK 1. Edward N. Wolff (1985), Industrial Composition, Interindustry Effects, and the U.S. Productivity Slowdown, Review of Economics and Statistics, 67 (2), May, 26877 2. Thijs ten Raa and Edward N. Wolff (1991), Secondary Products and the Measurement of Productivity Growth, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 21 (41), December, 581615 3. Edward N. Wolff (1994), Productivity Measurement Within an InputOutput Framework, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 24 (1), February, 7592 4. Thijs ten Raa (2004), A Neoclassical Analysis of Total Factor Productivity Using InputOutput Prices, in Erik Dietzenbacher and Michael L. Lahr (eds), Wassily Leontief and InputOutput Economics, Chapter 10, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 15165 PART II INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH 5. Edward N. Wolff (1994), Productivity Growth and Capital Intensity on the Sector and Industry Level: Specialisation among OECD Countries, 19701988, in Gerald Silverberg and Luc Soete (eds), The Economics of Growth and Technical Change: Technologies, Nations, Agents, Chapter 8, Cheltenham, UK and Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 185211 6. Thijs ten Raa (1994), Comment on Wolff, in Gerald Silverberg and Luc Soete (eds), The Economics of Growth and Technical Change: Technologies, Nations, Agents, Chapter 8, Cheltenham, UK and Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 21214 7. Angel Luis Ruiz and Edward N. Wolff (1996), Productivity Growth, Import Leakage and Employment Growth in Puerto Rico, 196787, Economic Systems Research, 8 (4), 391413 8. Thijs ten Raa and Pierre Mohnen (2002), Neoclassical Growth Accounting and Frontier Analysis: A Synthesis, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 18 (2), 11128 9. Edward N. Wolff (2003), Skills and Changing Comparative Advantage, Review of Economics and Statistics, 85 (1), February, 7793 PART III OUTSOURCING AND PRODUCTIVITY SPILLOVERS 10. Thijs ten Raa and Edward N. Wolff (2001), Outsourcing of Services and the Productivity Recovery in U.S. Manufacturing in the 1980s and 1990s, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 16 (2), 14965 11. Thijs ten Raa and Edward N. Wolff (2000), Engines of Growth in the US Economy, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 11 (4), December, 47389 12. Edward N. Wolff (1997), Spillovers, Linkages and Technical Change, Economic Systems Research, 9 (1), 923 PART IV LABOR AND CAPITAL PRODUCTIVITY 13. Edward N. Wolff and David R. Howell (1989), Labor Quality and Productivity Growth in the United States: An InputOutput Growth-Accounting Framework, in Ronald E. Miller, Karen R. Polenske and Adam Z. Rose (eds), Frontiers of InputOutput Analysis, Chapter 11, New York, NY and Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 14862 14. Edward N. Wolff (2006), The Growth of Information Workers in the US Economy, 19502000: The Role of Technological Change, Computerization, and Structural Change, Economic Systems Research, 18 (3), September, 22155 15. Maury Gittleman, Thijs ten Raa and Edward N. Wolff (2006), The Vintage Effect in TFP-Growth: An Analysis of the Age Structure of Capital, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 17 (3), September, 30628 16. Thijs ten Raa and Pierre Mohnen (2008), Competition and Performance: The Different Roles of Capital and Labor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 65 (34), March, 57384 PART V PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS: SYNTHESIS 17. Thijs ten Raa (2005), Aggregation of Productivity Indices: The Allocative Efficiency Correction, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 24 (2), October, 2039 18. Thijs ten Raa (2007), Dont Aggregate Efficiency But Disaggrega