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标题：Knowledge Intensity in a Set of Latin American Countries: Implications for Productivity
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作者：Matilde Mas ; André Hofman ; Eva Benages 等
期刊名称：International Productivity Monitor
印刷版ISSN：1492-9759
出版年度：2019
期号：36
页码：204-233
语种：English
出版社：Centre for the Study of Living Standards
摘要：This article proposes to measure the knowledge intensity of economies with an alternative approach to those based on the aggregation of industries according to their R&D expenditure or the qualification of the workforce. The proposed metric is based on the economic valuation of productive services provided by a set of assets that incorporate knowledge, specifically human capital and information and communication technologies (ICT). Rather than using a single indicator to measure knowledge intensity, we follow an economic approach rooted in a growth accounting methodology, determining the contribution of each individual asset according to the prices of the services they provide. This methodology is applied to four Latin-American (LA) countries, namely Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, taking the United States and Spain as benchmarks for the period 2000-2016.