Productivity in the European Union: A Comparative Industry Approach (EU KLEMS2003)This project aims to create a database on measures of economic growth, productivity, employment creation, capital formation and technological change at the industry level for all European Union member states from 1970 onwards. This work will provide an important input to policy evaluation, in particular for the assessment of the goals concerning competitiveness and economic growth potential as established by the Lisbon and Barcelona summit goals. The database should facilitate the sustainable production of high quality statistics using the methodologies of national accounts and input-output analysis. The input measures will include various categories of capital, labour, energy, material and service inputs. Productivity measures will be developed, in particular with growth accounting techniques. Several measures on knowledge creation will also be constructed. Substantial methodological and data research on these measures will be carried out to improve international comparability. There will be ample attention for the development of a flexible database structure, and for the progressive implementation of the database in official statistics over the course of the project. The database will be used for analytical and policy-related purposes, in particular by studying the relationship between skill formation, technological progress and innovation on the one hand, and productivity, on the other. To facilitate this type of analysis a link will also be sought with existing micro (firm level) databases. The balance in academic, statistical and policy input in this project is realised by the participation of 15 organisations from across the EU, representing a mix of academic institutions and national economic policy research institutes and with the support from various statistical offices and the OECD. |
EU KLEMS Final ConferenceOn 19 and 20 June 2008, the final conference of the EU KLEMS project on "Productivity in the European Union: A Comparative Industry Approach" will be held at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). The conference marks the completion of a 4 year research project by a consortium of 16 research institutions across Europe, having led to the creation of a large database on growth and productivity accounts at industry level for individual EU member states, various EU aggregates, Japan and the United States. For more information on the conference please visit the conference webpage. |
Latest newsThe first set of new country files for the March 2008 release of the EU KLEMS database has been made available on the data section of the EU KLEMS website. Over the following weeks the remaining country files will be made available on a rolling basis. Included in the release are the ‘standard’ and ‘alternative’ aggregation files, as well as detailed labour and capital input files (where available) and an updated source document. The aggregates for country groupings are scheduled for the end of March, when all countries have been included. Now that an increasing number of publications appear which make more or less intensive use of the EU KLEMS database, we have launched two more items to our publications page. The first item concerns “core publications” from the EU KLEMS team, which take the EU KLEMS database as a focal point of analysis. The second item concerns “Other publications using EU KLEMS data”. The EU KLEMS consortium has made a proposal for a three volume publication of EU KLEMS work to Cambridge University Press (CUP). The proposal, which can be downloaded here with your internal access code, consists of a first monograph by Timmer et al., a volume with comparative country chapters, and a volume with research papers. |
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This project is funded by the European Commission, Research Directorate General as part of the 6th Framework Programme, Priority 8, "Policy Support and Anticipating Scientific and Technological Needs". |
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