ABSTRACT: The release of the Penn World Table version 10.0 is the fifth release since the switch to the ‘Next Generation of the Penn World Table’, see Feenstra, Inklaar and Timmer (2015). PWT 10.0 is a database with information on relative levels of income, output, input and productivity, covering 183 countries between 1950 and 2019. Continue reading “Working Paper: What is new in PWT 10.0?”
ABSTRACT: The release of the Penn World Table version 9.1 is the fourth release since the switch to the ‘Next Generation of the Penn World Table’, see Feenstra, Inklaar and Timmer (2015). PWT 9.1 does contain important new and revised data. Continue reading “Working Paper: What is new in PWT 9.1?”
ABSTRACT: This document describes the sources and methods used for estimation of data on capital stocks and employment variables for the 43 countries included in the WIOD 2016 database, called the Socio-Economic Accounts (SEAs). Continue reading “Working Paper: WIOD Socio-Economic Accounts 2016”
A New View on Technology and Productivity in German Manufacturing in the Early Twentieth Century
ABSTRACT: Labor productivity in German manufacturing lagged persistently behind the United States in the early twentieth century. Traditionally, this is attributed to dichotomous technology paths across the Atlantic. Continue reading “Article: The Yankees of Europe?”
Ca. 1870-1950, A Time-Series Perspective
ABSTRACT: This paper accompanies the Historical National Accounts datahub which presents an overview of the currently available studies on long-term economic growth across countries. Continue reading “Working Paper: A Dataset on Comparative Historical National Accounts”
Issue 2
ABSTRACT: This report presents the second description of results obtained from the first release of the EU KLEMS Growth and Productivity Accounts, which have been released in March 2008. Continue reading “Working Paper: The EU KLEMS Productivity Report”
Pieter (Jop) WOLTJER 