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Productivity in the European Union: a comparative industry approach

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Title	Productivity in the European Union: a comparative industry approach
Period	09 / 2005 - 08 / 2007
Status	Completed
URL	http://www.euklems.net/
Research number	OND1305262
Data Supplier	Website RUM

Abstract

This project aims to create a database on measures of economic growth, productivity, employment creation, capital formation and technological change at the industry level for all European Union member states from 1970 onwards. This work will provide an important input to policy evaluation, in particular for the assessment of the goals concerning competitiveness and economic growth potential as established by the Lisbon and Barcelona summit goals. The database should facilitate the sustainable production of high quality statistics using the methodologies of national accounts and input-output analysis. The input measures will include various categories of capital, labour, energy, material and service inputs. Productivity measures will be developed, in particular with growth accounting techniques. Several measures on knowledge creation will also be constructed. Substantial methodological and data research on these measures will be carried out to improve international comparability. There will be ample attention for the development of a flexible database structure, and for the progressive implementation of the database in official statistics over the course of the project. The database will be used for analytical and policy-related purposes, in particular by studying the relationship between skill formation, technological progress and innovation on the one hand, and productivity, on the other. To facilitate this type of analysis a link will also be sought with existing micro (firm level) databases. The balance in academic, statistical and policy input in this project is realised by the participation of 14 organisations from across the EU, representing a mix of academic institutions and national economic policy research institutes and with the support from various statistical offices and the OECD.

Related organisations

Secretariat	Department ofGlobal Economics and Management (RUG)
Financier	European Commission

Other involved organisations

National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London
Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR, Copenhagen)
Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB, The Hague)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW, Berlin)
Federaal Planbureau (FPB, Brussels)
Information on the Istituto di Studi e Analisi Economica (ISAE, Roma)
Instituto Valenciano de Investigationes Económicas (IVIE, Valencia)
Helsinki School of Economics (HSE, Helsinki)
Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO, Vienna)
Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche
AMsterdam Institute for Business and Economic Research, Free University Amsterdam (AMBER)
The Conference Board Europe (TCB, Brussels)
Fachhochschule Konstanz (FK, Konstanz)
Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales (CEPII, Paris)

Related people

Researcher	M. O'Mahony
Project leader	Prof.dr. H.H. van Ark
Project leader	Prof.dr.drs. M.P. Timmer

Classification

A30000	Industrial production
A50000	Economics
A88000	Public administration and policy
D43000	Economics