Eine für Österreich gänzlich neue Datenbasis, die das WIFO im Rahmen der internationalen Forschungskooperation "EU KLEMS"
erstellt hat, ermöglicht die Berechnung des disaggregierten Wachstumsbeitrags des technologischen Wandels, gemessen an der
Entwicklung der Multifaktorproduktivität. Die Auswertung der Daten unterstreicht die herausragende Bedeutung technologischer
Veränderungen als treibende Kraft von Wachstum und damit materiellem Wohlstand.
WIFO White Paper: Technological Change and Productivity. Disaggregated Contributions to Growth in Austria Since 1990
Between 1990 and 2004, the average annual growth of total real value added amounted to about 2.38 percent, with +1.33 percentage
points contributed by capital output growth, +0.46 percentage point by labour output growth, and +0.85 percentage point by
multi-factor productivity growth (as well as minor re-allocation effects). Thus, the contribution of non-factor related technological
change, measured in terms of multi-factor productivity, accounted for more than one third of total economic growth. If the
quality effects of the shift in factor utilisation towards higher-value production factors resulting from factor-related technological
change are included, the average annual contribution to growth stands at +1.49 percentage points, corresponding to a share
of 63 percent. Hence, qualitative changes have been responsible for close to two thirds of real value added growth since 1990.
Authors: Karl Aiginger, Gudrun Biffl, Julia Bock Schappelwein, Michael Böheim, Fritz Breuss, Margarete Czerny, Martin Falk,
Rahel Falk, Klaus S. Friesenbichler, Alois Guger, Franz R. Hahn, Heinz Handler, Werner Hölzl, Peter Huber, Ulrike Huemer,
Serguei Kaniovski, Daniela Kletzan, Angela Köppl, Kurt Kratena, Hannes Leo, Thomas Leoni, Hedwig Lutz, Helmut Mahringer, Markus
Marterbauer, Peter Mayerhofer, Ina Meyer, Michael Peneder, Andrea Pöschl, Wilfried Puwein, Margit Schratzenstaller, Susanne
Sieber, Franz Sinabell, Egon Smeral, Jan Stankovsky, Sandra Steindl, Fabian Unterlass, Thomas Url, Ewald Walterskirchen, Michael
Weingärtler, Yvonne Wolfmayr, Michael Wüger • Scientific consultants: Kurt Bayer, Gudrun Biffl, Werner Bönte, Nikolaus Franke,
Friedrich Fritzer, Stefan Griller, Heinz Handler, Heinz Hollenstein, Helmut Kramer, Helmut Mahringer, Gerhard Palme, Michael
Pfaffermayr, Karl Pichelmann, Wilfried Puwein, Werner Rothengatter, Stefan Schleicher, Helene Schuberth, Viktor Steiner, Karl
Steininger, Gunther Tichy, Gerhard Untiedt, Thomas Url, Herbert Walther, Yvonne Wolfmayr, Andreas Wörgötter, Martin Zagler
• Research assistants: Martina Agwi, Sabine Fragner, Dagmar Guttmann, Florian Hammerle, Julia Hudritsch, Christine Kaufmann,
Dietmar Klose, Thomas König, Irene Langer, Eva Latschka, Christa Magerl, Elisabeth Neppl-Oswald, Sonja Patsios, Waltraud Popp,
Eva Sokoll, Roland Spitzlinger, Martha Steiner, Andreas Steinmayr, Andrea Sutrich, Maria Thalhammer, Roswitha Übl, Alexandra
Wegscheider-Pichler, Dietmar Weinberger, Gabriele Wellan • Bibliography: Angelina Keil, Eva Novotny • Project management:
Dagmar Guttmann, Kristin Smeral • Editing: Marianne Uitz, Tatjana Weber
