Public sector productivity: measurement challenges, performance information and prospects for improvement

Patrick Dunleavy

LSE Research Online Documents on Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library

Abstract: Improving productivity at the organisational level offers the greatest immediate dividends and could successfully cover the largest departments and agencies at the central or national level. For many decades the measurement of government outputs in national statistics and economic accounts used inputs, which assumes that government productivity neither grows nor falls. Modern solutions exist however, that can generate empirically useful metrics of total outputs from which stakeholders could learn key lessons about the productivity of their agencies over time. This article outlines the tools needed to apply these modern solutions and offers recommendations for improving cross-national productivity data for government

Keywords: Productivity measurement; core inputs; quality weighting; labour; regression analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H10 H11 H30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-12-20
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eff
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in OECD Journal on Budgeting, 20, December, 2017, 17(1), pp. 1-28. ISSN: 1608-7143

Downloads: (external link)
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/87207/ Open access version. (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ehl:lserod:87207

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library LSE Library Portugal Street London, WC2A 2HD, U.K.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by LSERO Manager ().