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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783257103321

Autore

Triplett Jack E

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8157-9663-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BosworthBarry <1942->

Disciplina

338.4/5/0973

Soggetti

Service industries - Labor productivity - United States

Industrial productivity - United States - Measurement

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-388) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Productivity in the U. S. Services Sector""; ""Introduction""; ""Overview: Industry Productivity Trends""; ""Discussion of Productivity Trends and Measurement Issues in Services Industries""; ""Output and Productivity in the Transportation Sector""; ""Output and Productivity Growth in the Communications Industry""; ""Discussion of the Transportation and Communications Industries""; ""Overview: Productivity and Measurement in the Finance and Insurance Sector""; ""Price, Output, and Productivity of Insurance: Conceptual Issues""

""Measuring Banking and Finance: Conceptual Issues""""Discussion of Banking Output""; ""Discussion of Output Measurement in the Insurance and the Banking and Finance Industries""; ""Reply to Dennis Fixler""; ""Output and Productivity in Retail Trade""; ""Discussion of Output and Productivity in Retail Trade""; ""Output and Productivity in Other Services""; ""High-Tech Capital Equipment: Inputs to Services Industries""; ""Data Needs""; ""Industry Productivity Accounts, 1987-2001""; ""Workshops in the Brookings Program on Output and Productivity Measurement in the Services Sector""

""References""""Index""