Economic productivity in the air transportation industry: multifactor and labor productivity trends, 1990–2014

Multifactor Productivity in Health Care

The following overview introduces a series of articles that focuses on multifactor productivity (MFP) growth in health care. This edition of the Health Care Financing Review begins with a theoretical discussion of the Medicare Economic Index (MEI) and the conceptual reasons for the MFP adjustment incorporated into the Medicare physician fee schedule (MPFS). The issue then moves on to an explora...

Regional Productivity Trends in Chinese Industry

Industry productivity trends under the North American Industry Classification system

Matt Russell and Paul Takac are economists, and Lisa Usher is Chief of the Division of IndustryProductivity Studies, in the Office of Productivity and Technology, Bureau of Labor Statistics. E-mail: Russell.Matthew @bls.gov [email protected] [email protected] The NAICS classification system presents a more consistent framework and a conceptual improvement for productivity measurement; while p...

Trends in hospital labor and total factor productivity, 1981-86

The per-case payment rates of Medicare's prospective payment system are annually updated. As one element of the update factor, Congress required consideration of changes in hospital productivity. In this article, calculations of annual changes in labor and total factor productivity during 1981-86 of hospitals eligible for prospective payment are presented using several output and input variants...

Productivity Trends in the Coal Mining Industry in Canada

......................................................................................................................................... iii Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................v I. Literature Review of Studies on Productivity in the Coal Mining Industry ........................1 A. Anton (198...