Results for tag: Productivity
New GGDC Research Highlights Agriculture’s Surprising Role in Global Productivity Convergence
| Date: | 20 June 2025 |
A new paper by Robert Inklaar and Ryan Marapin, "Accounting for productivity convergence: sectors and structural change," offers fresh insights into the forces behind global labour productivity convergence from 1990 to 2018.
Call for papers: 8th World KLEMS Conference in Tokyo
| Date: | 08 July 2024 |
The 8th World KLEMS Conference will be held on March 27-28, 2025 in Tokyo. This is the second World KLEMS Conference in Tokyo, with the first one held in 2014. This conference is organized by Gakushuin University, Hitotsubashi University, and Research...
Structural Transformation in Transition Economies: New Data and New Insights
| Date: | 09 January 2024 |
The new Economic Transformation Database of Transition Economies [ETD-TE] allows for analysis of the inter-industry structural change performance of the countries of the former Soviet Union for the first time. In the period 1990-2019 - the three decades...
GGDC Releases Productivity Level Database 2023 Edition
| Date: | 23 October 2023 |
Comparing productivity at the sectoral level requires estimates of relatives prices at the sectoral level. The 2023 edition of the Productivity Level Database provides the most comprehensive GGDC dataset to date, covering 84 countries and 12 sectors across...
TPI blog on the Penn World Table
| Date: | 18 July 2023 |
The Productivity Institute recently published a new blog introducing the Penn World Table (PWT). Authored by Ryan Marapin, Robert Inklaar and Reitze Gouma, this blog showcases two example analyses that illustrate the potential of the PWT data set, along...
EU KLEMS Updates
| Date: | 21 March 2023 |
Last November 2022 the original EU KLEMS project website was taken offline. Since 2007 this website hosted the initial EU KLEMS project pages and all releases constructed between 2007 and 2018. The website has been archived in its entirety using the intern...
PWT 10.01 has been released
| Date: | 09 February 2023 |
We have released a minor update of the Penn World Table, version 10.01. This update changes part of the calculation of investment prices and most notably impact capital growth. Details of this change have been documented in an updated 'what is new'...
Robert Inklaar, Daan Freeman and Erwin Diewert win the 2021 Kendrick prize
| Date: | 01 September 2022 |
Robert Inklaar, Daan Freeman and Erwin Diewert have won the 2021 Kendrick prize during the 37th IARIW General Conference held in August in Luxembourg. Their paper titled ‘Natural Resources and Missing Inputs in International Productivity Comparisons’ was...
The Economist: Britain’s productivity problem is long-standing and getting worse
| Date: | 14 June 2022 |
On June 9th, The Economist featured research by John Fernald of INSEAD Business School and GGDC director Robert Inklaar. In their article 'The UK Productivity “Puzzle” in an International Comparative Perspective', they argue that most of Britain’s slowdown...
The Economist: China is trying to protect its economy from Western pressure
| Date: | 30 May 2022 |
On May 26 The Economist featured an article on China's attempts to mitigate its exposure to Western influence, using data from the Penn World Table version 10.0.