OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators 2013
Productivity is a key source of economic growth and competitiveness and, as such, we need internationally comparable measures for assessing economic performance. The OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators 2013 presents a comprehensive overview of recent and longer term trends in productivity levels and growth in OECD countries. It also highlights some of the key measurement issues faced when compiling cross-country comparable productivity indicators.
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Productivity over the cycle
Labour productivity is a key driver of economic growth and living standards. Understanding how much actual labour productivity growth is driven by structural factors and how much by reactions to the productivity cycle or the economic cycle is hence important for policy makers. This requires decomposing the time series of actual annual labour productivity growth into a trend (or structural) component and a cyclical component.
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