Labor productivity? - PUL Quick Answers

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See the OECD data on labor productivity, utilization, and forecasts.
Use the Economic Transformation Database. Provides comprehensive, long-term, and internationally comparable sectoral data on output and employment in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Covers:
- measures of economic growth and labor inputs for 51 economies in Africa, Asia, & Latin America;
- 12 sectors of the total economy;
- time series with annual data from 1990 until 2018;
- variables included are value added at constant and current prices, and persons employed.
Use the Groningen Growth and Development Centre 10-Sector Database. Provides a long-run internationally comparable dataset on sectoral productivity performance in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Variables covered in the data set are annual series of value added, output deflators, and persons employed for 10 broad sectors.
Many use UNIDO's Industrial Statistics Database to calculate productivity.
Long Term Productivity Database: Contains information from at least 1890 and until 2022 on GDP per capita, labor productivity, total factor productivity, capital intensity and average age of equipment for 23 OECD countries.
Use the BERI Quality of Workforce Index.

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