Industry Growth Accounting Database
All series derived from this database need to be referred to as:
Groningen Growth and Development Centre, Industry growth accounting database, September 2006, http://www.ggdc.net/, updated from O'Mahony and van Ark (2003)
For the Industry Growth Accounting Database, data on labour skills (three categories)
and investment and capital services (3 ICT asset categories and 3 non-ICT categories) have
been constructed for Australia, Canada, the US and 4 European countries (France, Germany, The Netherlands and
the UK) in addition to the output and labour input estimates from the 60-industry Database. This allows for a decomposition of output growth into into the contributions of labour and capital, and total factor productivity using the growth accounting methodology.
A full description and analysis of the database can be found in:
- Inklaar, Robert, Marcel P. Timmer and Bart van Ark (2006), "Mind the gap! International Comparisons of Productivity in Services and Goods Production", GGDC Research Memorandum, GD-89
and
- Inklaar, Robert, Mary O'Mahony and Marcel P. Timmer (2005), "ICT and Europe's Productivity Performance; Industry-level Growth Account Comparisons with the United States", Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 51 no. 4, pp. 505-536.
The original database description can be found in:
Downloadable country files:
A detailed calculation example of the contribution of labour and capital to aggregate growth
is given in a separate example-file.
Previous version of this database
The 2006 version of the Industry Growth accounting database is an extended, updated and improved version of the database published in 2003.
The earlier version of the database that has been used in the paper below is still
available for replicating results:
The 2003 database has been originally devised for a study developed by the Groningen Growth and Development Centre and the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, which was was commissioned by the European Commission, DG Enterprise. This study, EU Productivity and Competitiveness: An Industry Perspective Can Europe Resume the Catching-up Process? (M. O'Mahony and B. van Ark, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2003) gives a clear view of the productivity situation of the countries in the European Union.
Examples of research based on this database
- Inklaar, Robert, Marcel P. Timmer and Bart van Ark (2006), "Mind the gap! International Comparisons of Productivity in Services and Goods Production", GGDC Research Memorandum, GD-89
- Inklaar, Robert, Mary O'Mahony and Marcel P. Timmer (2005), "ICT and Europe's Productivity Performance; Industry-level Growth Account Comparisons with the United States", Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 51 no. 4, pp. 505-536.
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