Workshop on Productivity and Well-being: Measurement and Linkages
Joint workshop organised by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards and The Productivity Institute with the support of the International Labour Organization.
Programme as of October 22nd
- Virtual event to be held November 16-17, 2021
- Each paper is allocated 45 minutes. All times are UK (Central European Time 1 hour later; US Eastern Time 5 hours earlier)
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Tuesday, November 16
13:00-15:15 | Session 1: The Productivity-Well-being Relationship
Opening remarks: Andrew Sharpe (Centre for the Study of Living Standards) and Bart van Ark (The Productivity Institute)
Chair: Dan Sichel (Wellesley College)
Authors: Conal Smith (Victoria University of Wellington) and Jaimie Legge (Institute of Economic Affairs)
Paper: Wellbeing and productivity
Discussant: Don Drummond (Centre for the Study of Living Standards and Queen’s University)
Authors: Charles-Henri DiMaria, Chiara Peroni and Francesco Sarracino (all from National Institute of Statistical and Economic Studies of Luxembourg – STATEC)
Paper: From economic productivity to productive well-being
Discussant: Robin Sickles (Rice University)
Author: Tim Hazledine (University of Auckland)
Paper: Trust, deep trust, productivity and well-being (with a case study of the New Zealand paradoxes)
Discussant: Sjoerd Beugelsdijk (University of Groningen)
15:15-15:30 | Break
15:30-17:00 | Session 2: The Impact of Well-being on Productivity
Chair: Claude Lavoie (Finance Canada)
Authors: Matthew Agarwala and Diane Coyle (University of Cambridge) and Valentina Di Gennaro (University of Siena) and Silvia Ferrini (Centre of Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment – CSERGE – and University of East Anglia)
Paper: The impact of subjective well-being on economic productivity: a sub-national empirical analysis in the UK
Discussant: Fabrice Murtin (OECD)
Authors: Francesco Sarracino and Kelsey O’Connor (both from National Institute of Statistical and Economic Studies of Luxembourg – STATEC – and Institute of Labour Economics – IZA)
Paper: A measure of well-being productivity Based on the World Happiness Report
Discussant: John Helliwell (University of British Columbia)
Wednesday, 17 November
13:00 – 15:15 | Session 3: New Approaches and Metrics in Measuring Productivity and Well-being Linkages
Chair: Jeff Johnson (International Labour Organization)
Authors: Chiara Peroni, Maxime Pettinger and Francesco Sarracino (all from National Institute of Statistical and Economic Studies of Luxembourg – STATEC)
Paper: Productivity gains from job satisfaction in Europe
Discussant: Chris Warhurst (University of Warwick)
Authors: Diane Coyle (University of Cambridge) and Leonard Nakamura (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Paper: Time use and household-centric measurement of welfare in the digital economy
Discussant: Lucy Eldridge (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Author: Nicholas Oulton (LSE)
Paper: The productivity-welfare linkage: a statistical decomposition
Discussant: John Fernald (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and INSEAD)
15:15-15:30 | Break
15:30-17:00 | Session 4: Natural Resources, Human Capital and the Productivity/Well-being Relationship
Chair: Dany Brouillette (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
Author: Rachel Soloveich (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
Paper: Natural resource exploration as investment
Discussant: Martin Fleming (formerly IBM, The Productivity Institute)
Author: Barbara M. Fraumeni (Central University of Finance and Economics)
Paper: An improved production model to estimate productivity with lifetime (adjusted) hours human capital stocks for the United States (1976-2013)
Discussant: Mary O’Mahony (King’s College London)
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