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The Boskin Commission Report: A Retrospective One Decade Later [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2006 This paper provides a retrospective on the 1996 Boskin Commission Report, Toward a More Accurate Measure of the Cost of Living, and its famous estimate that the CPI in 1995-96 was upward biased by 1.1 percent per year. The paper summarizes the report's methods, findings, and recommendations, and then reviews the criticisms that appeared soon after the ...
Robert J. Gordon
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The BLS Response to the Boskin Commission Report [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2006 The author provides a BLS response to the Boskin Commission from the perspective of ten years following the release of the report. He documents the research on price indexes done at the BLS in the first half of the 1990s that pointed to upward CPI bias, and discusses how these results eventually lead to the appointment of the Boskin Commission in 1995.
John S. Greenless
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The Boskin Commission Report After a Decade [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2006 The author highlights the extremely salutatory effect the Boskin Commission has had on international price statistics, promoting open discussion of price measurement issues, engendering dialogue between statistical agencies and users, and encouraging research.
Jack E. Triplett
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Policy Implications of the Boskin Commission Report [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2006 The author supports the type of the back-of-the-envelope calculations of CPI bias that the Commission used so effectively to attract public attention to its report. In the area of quality adjustment, however, he criticizes the Boskin Commission for what he calls “premature extrapolation,” that is moving too quickly from a limited number of examples to ...
Martin Neil Baily
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The Boskin Commission Report After a Decade: Introduction to the Symposium and Implications for Productivity [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2006 Brief introduction to the symposium highlighting the importance of price measurement for reliable productivity estimates. Accurate price indexes are essential for reliable productivity measurement. the author points out that a one percentage point upward bias in price changes results in a one percentage point downward bias in real output growth and by ...
Jack E. Triplett
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The Boskin Commission Report After a Decade: After-life or Requiem? [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2006 The author provides a political economy interpretation of the rise and fall of public interest in price measurement, placing these developments in the context of the attempt by Congress and the White House to deal with growing deficits in the early to mid-1990s.
Ernst R. Berndt
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The Boskin Commission Report: A Retrospective One Decade Later [PDF]
This paper provides a retrospective on the 1996 Boskin Commission Report, Toward a More Accurate Measure of the Cost of Living, and its famous estimate that the CPI in 1995-96 was upward biased by 1.1 percent per year.
Robert J. Gordon
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Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 581-605, September 2023., 2023 Current measurement practices of the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) produce an upward bias of about one‐ninth of a percentage point in German inflation due to changing consumption being disregarded and preliminary data being used in the compilation of expenditure weights.
Julika Herzberg +3 more
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Nursing Open, Volume 10, Issue 5, Page 2859-2868, May 2023., 2023 Abstract Aim The aim of research was to assess the needs of patients with severe mental illness (SMI) attending follow‐up day hospital (DH) programmes from the patients', relatives' and experts' perspective. Design This triangulation research relies on three sources of information and two techniques of data collection.
Tanja Torkar, Vesna Homar, Vesna Švab
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Investigating the role of competing wage opportunities in truck driver occupational choice
Journal of Business Logistics, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 265-289, April 2022., 2022 Abstract A perceived driver shortage causing difficulty in hiring and retaining qualified drivers threatens carrier productivity and profitability. Logistics literature concerning driver turnover has focused on three primary groups of factors contributing to the driver turnover: driver demographics, manager quality, and work environment.
Jonathan Phares, Andrew Balthrop
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