Productivity Measurement in Global Value Chains

Increasing fragmentation of production is posing new challenges to the measurement of productivity. Traditional approaches focus on firms, industries or countries as the unit of analysis. In this article we argue that studies of global value chains (GVCs) are needed. We introduce the GVC accounting...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marcel Timmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre for the Study of Living Standards 2017-09-01
Series:International Productivity Monitor
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Online Access:http://www.csls.ca/ipm/33/Timmer.pdf