Accomplishment Based Research: Substantive and Measurement Issues in the Productivity Growth Slowdown

基于成就的研究：生产率增长放缓的实质性和衡量问题

• 批准号: 9022897
• 负责人: Robert Gordon
• 金额: $ 12.01万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-04-15 至 1993-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9022897&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Accomplishment; Based; Research; Substantive; Measurement

The United States is now reaching the end of its second decade of virtually zero growth in productivity in the service sector. The purpose of this research is to determine and analyze the reasons for this unsatisfactory performance, with its threatening implications for the future growth of the American standard of living. This project is divided into three major components. The first consists of an international comparison of differences in productivity measurement-methods. Some facts of measurement favor the U.S., particularly in the manufacturing sector, where the U.S. is almost unique in its use of a hedonic price index for computers. Other considerations help to account for a poor U.S. performance and the more favorable foreign performance in non- manufacturing, particularly the greater use in foreign accounts of physical measures of output in such industries as construction, transportation, banking, and finance. This research will develop a coherent account of differences in measurement methods in the U. S. and four other leading nations. The second part of the project analysis the causes for the differences productivity performance, particularly the hypothesis that labor in U.S. service industries is poorly paid, leading to a high use of labor relative to some European countries where the relative wage in the services is higher and the use of labor relatively lower. The hypothesis will be tested in a comparison of wage and productivity performance across industries and countries. The final component will consist of detailed studies of individual U.S. industries which raise a combination of measurement and substantive issues. Building on previous work that yielded new insights on productivity behavior in the U.S. transportation and utility industries, this part of the project will focus on banking, finance, and retailing.

美国现在即将结束其第二个十年， 服务业的生产率几乎为零增长。 的 本研究的目的是确定和分析原因， 对于这种不令人满意的表现，其威胁 对美国标准未来增长的影响 living. 该项目分为三个主要部分。 第一 包括国际比较的差异， 生产力测量方法 测量的一些事实 有利于美国，特别是在制造业， 美国几乎是唯一使用享乐价格指数的国家。 电脑 其他因素也有助于解释美国贫穷的原因。 性能和更有利的外国性能在非 制造业，特别是更多地使用外国账户 在这些行业中， 建筑、交通、银行和金融。 这 研究将发展一个连贯的帐户的差异， 测量方法在美国S.和其他四个主要国家。 第二部分分析了项目实施的原因 差异生产力表现，特别是假设 美国服务业的劳动力收入很低，导致 与一些欧洲国家相比， 服务业的相对工资较高，劳动力的使用 相对较低。 这一假设将在比较中得到检验 工资和生产力表现的影响， 国家 最后一部分将包括详细的研究 美国的个别行业提出了一个组合， 衡量和实质性问题。 在以往工作的基础上 这对美国的生产力行为产生了新的见解 运输和公用事业行业，这部分项目 将专注于银行业金融业和零售业