The future of productivity: What contribution can digital transformation make?

This article summarises emerging evidence on the relationship between productivity and the digital transformation, based on work underway in the OECD’s Going Digital project. The article starts by discussing the relationship between the global productivity slowdown and the diffusion of digital technologies and related processes across firms and industries. It then outlines the role of structural factors in digital adoption, before concluding with a brief discussion on policies to strengthen future productivity growth

Interconnected economies

행사명 : Global Industry and Economy Forum 201

The Economic Impacts of ICT : A European Perspective

Presented to the Conference on IT Innovation, Tokyo, December 2004.45 p

The sectoral productivity performance of Japan and the US, 1885–1990

This paper provides a disaggregated productivity comparison between Japan and the U.S. for the period 1885-1990. It combines two detailed productivity comparisons for 1939 and 1975 with time series to provide a long-term sectoral perspective. There is much diversity in the Japanese experience. The agricultural sector has shown relative stagnation since 1885. The service sector showed considerable growth before the Second World War and reached high productivity levels in the post-war period. Within services there is great diversity in productivity levels, Japan's manufacturing sector has shown the fastest catch-up and its productivity level is currently close to that of the U.S

Productivity Growth in the OECD Area: Some Recent Findings

The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has in recent years devoted considerable resources to the study of productivity trends in the OECD area. In this article, Dirk Pilat, a senior economist at the OECD provides an overview of the key results of this research effort. These include the finding that: the United States continues to have the highest level of GDP per capita in the OECD area; the gap between the aggregate productivity level in the United States and in other OECD countries increased in the 1990s after falling up to then, reflecting the rebound in U.S. productivity growth, a phenomenon not observed elsewhere; divergences in productivity growth performance are not due to different measurement techniques used in OECD countries; and difference in GDP per capita trends reflect differences in labour utilization, with the United States enjoying strong growth in both productivity and the employment rate while many European countries experiencing limited employment growth.OECD, Productivity, Productivity Trends, Research, United States, Productivity Gap, 1990s, Growth, Measurement, Measurement Techniques, Labor, Labour, Labor Organization, Employment, Employment Growth, Europe, Productivity Drivers, Driver, Canada, United States, New Economy, Multi-Factor Productivity, Structural

Growth differentials in OECD countries: some reflections

Productivity, information technology, growth, enterprise dynamics, O33, O40, O57,

Le paradoxe de la productivité : L'apport des micro-données

L’analyse économétrique de la croissance économique et de la productivité distingue en général trois effets des technologies de l’information et des communications (TIC). Premièrement, l’investissement dans les TIC contribue à accroître le stock de capital et améliore donc la productivité du travail. Deuxièmement, le progrès technologique rapide dans la production de biens et services des TIC peut contribuer à faire progresser l’efficience du capital et du travail, ou la productivité multifactorielle (PMF), dans le secteur producteur de TIC. Et troisièmement, une plus large utilisation des TIC dans l’ensemble de l’économie peut aider les...