OECD Multiprod – Results for Austria

In 2015, the OECD initiated the "Multiprod" project, which for the first time was to analyse the productivity development of companies on the basis of company microdata in an international comparison. WIFO examined productivity development in Austria on the basis of microdata from Statistik Austria and compared it with the countries participating in the Multiprod project (including the innovation leaders Finland, Sweden and Denmark). Unfortunately, structural differences between the enterprise data of Statistik Austria (performance and structure survey) and other countries, such as the lack of capital stock data, considerably influence the results. A meaningful international comparison of the data was therefore not possible.