Labor & Unemployment
The US’ decades long second Great Depression
Agenda
Papers and comments are in PDF format.
Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett*
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8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast and Registration
Morning session chair: Charles Hulten, Maryland |
| 9:00 |
Chapter 1: Services industry productivity growth (PDF—287kb) Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett Discussants: Kevin Stiroh, New York FRB and Wesleyan University |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:30 |
Transportation and Communications Chapter 2a (PDF—173kb) Chapter 2b (PDF—155kb) Barry P. Bosworth Discussants: Robert Gordon, Northwestern |
| 11:30 |
Finance and insurance Chapter 3a (PDF—335kb) Chapter 3b (PDF—335kb) Chapter 3c (PDF—276kb) Jack E. Triplett Discussants: David Humphrey, Florida State |
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12:30 |
Lunch
Afternoon sessions chair: Marilyn Manser, Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| 1:15 |
E-commerce and retail trade (PDF—88kb) Barry P. Bosworth Discussants: Brian Ratchford, Maryland |
| 2:15 |
High-tech capital: Inputs to services industry productivity
(PDF—637kb) Jack E. Triplett Discussants: Carol Corrado, FRB |
| 3:15 |
Future research and data needs (PDF—38kb) Presenter and discussion leader: Dale Jorgenson, Harvard Reactors: Kathleen Utgoff, BLS Frederick Knickerbocker, Census |
| 4:15 | Adjourn |
* Bosworth and Triplett are producing a book on services industry productivity and measurement issues that makes use of the material in the 15 Brookings economic measurement workshops conducted between 1998 and 2003. The material distributed and discussed at this workshop consists of draft chapters from their book.
