--- canonical_url: "https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-27/priorities-and-directions-for-future-productivity-research-an-oecd-perspective/" title: "Priorities and Directions for Future Productivity Research: An OECD Perspective" author: name: "CSLS" url: "https://csls.ca/author/cslc/" date_published: "2026-07-13T07:37:54+00:00" date_modified: "2026-07-13T07:37:54+00:00" post_type: "ipm" summary: "" ipm_issue_period: - "Fall 2014" ipm_keyword: - "education" - "globalization" - "health" - "intellectual property" - "land" - "measurement" - "MFP" - "OECD" - "productivity research" - "sub-soil assets" ipm_research_theme: - "Measurement and methodology" ipm_country_focus: - "International" - "OECD" featured_image: "https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IPM_50_banner.webp" status: "publish" --- # Priorities and Directions for Future Productivity Research: An OECD Perspective Canonical URL: https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-27/priorities-and-directions-for-future-productivity-research-an-oecd-perspective/ # Priorities and Directions for Future Productivity Research: An OECD Perspective [Download full PDF article](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-27-1-Schreyer.pdf) Cite this article × Cite this article as: Schreyer, Paul. 2014. “Priorities and Directions for Future Productivity Research: An OECD Perspective.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 27 (Fall 2014): 7–9. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-27/priorities-and-directions-for-future-productivity-research-an-oecd-perspective/ ## Author: - Paul Schreyer OECD ## IPM Issue 27 Fall 2014 pp. 7–9 ## Related IPM articles [Is the SNA Still Useful? 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It then highlights the health and education sectors as a focus for future productivity research, given the challenges of capturing quality change in these sectors as well as the public provision of much of the output and absence of market prices. Finally, it points out that research is needed on the implications of globalization on productivity measurement, giving the example of intellectual property, which is produced in one country, but used in many. P RODUCTIVITY CHANGE AND ITS MEASURE – Cet article met en avant trois domaines prioritaires pour les futures recherches en productivité. Il cerne d’abord d’importantes lacunes dans les données liées aux actifs non produits et non financiers tels que les terres et les actifs du sous-sol, dont l’exclusion peut conduire à des estimations biaisées de la croissance de la productivité multifactorielle. Il met ensuite en évidence les secteurs de la santé et de l’éducation comme axes de futures recherches en productivité, compte tenu des difficultés à saisir les changements de qualité dans ces secteurs ainsi que la fourniture publique d’une grande partie de la production et l’absence de prix de marché. Enfin, il souligne que des recherches sont nécessaires sur les implications de la mondialisation pour la mesure de la productivité, en donnant l’exemple de la propriété intellectuelle, qui est produite dans un pays mais utilisée dans plusieurs. [Download full PDF](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-27-1-Schreyer.pdf)