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Understanding Productivity and Income Differentials Among OECD Countries: A Survey

In: The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress 2002: Towards a Social Understanding of Productivity

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Bart van Ark (Professor of Economics, University of Groningen)

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Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour productivity. Labour supply is in turn determined by the hours worked per person employed, the share of employment in the working age population, and the share of the working age population in the total population. Labour productivity is determined by within-industry productivity growth rates and inter-sectoral shifts in employment shares. The former is affected by the efficiency in factor use, that is total factor productivity, investment in physical capital, and investment in intangible capital.

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This chapter was published in: Andrew Sharpe, Executive Director & France St-Hilaire, Vice-President , Research & Keith Banting, Director (ed.) The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress 2002: Towards a Social Understanding of Productivity, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, 2002.

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Keywords: Productivity Labor Productivity Labour Productivity Growth Level Levels Living Standards ICT Information Communication Technology Canada United States European Union Hours Worked Average Hours Knowledge Knowledge Capital Human Capital Intangible Capital Research Development Investment Income Income Differentials

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O47 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Measurement of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
O57 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries
O30 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - General

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