Intereconomics, 1972 Just over 25 years ago, on the 5th June 1947, Secretary of State George C Marshall made a speech at Harvard initiating the plan for European recovery which was to bear his name. Its characteristic feature, and perhaps the key to its eventual success, was the active participation of the beneficiary countries: General Marshall's intention was that these ...
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Challenges in the Measurement of Public Sector Productivity in OECD Countries [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2017 Productivity is one of the main engines of economic growth. While most existing work on productivity has focused on the private sector, there is great value in better understanding productivity in the public sector, given government's important role in ...
Edwin Lau +2 more
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The Decoupling of Median Wages from Productivity in OECD Countries [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2017 Over the past two decades, aggregate labour productivity growth in most OECD countries has decoupled from real median compensation growth, implying that increasing productivity is no longer sufficient to raise real wages for the typical worker.
Cyrille Schwellnus +2 more
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Digitalization and Productivity: In Search of the Holy Grail - Firm-level Empirical Evidence from European Countries [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2019 This article assesses how the adoption of a range of digital technologies affects firm productivity. It combines cross-country firm-level data on productivity and industry-level data on digital technology adoption in an empirical framework that accounts ...
Peter Gal +4 more
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Firm-level Productivity Differences: Insights from the OECD’s MultiProd Project [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2017 Productivity plays a central role in shaping the welfare of societies and the competitiveness of countries. Productivity differences, for instance, explain a large share of the differences in income per capita across countries.
Giuseppe Berlingieri +3 more
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JANIS: NEA JAva-based Nuclear Data Information System
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017 JANIS (JAva-based Nuclear Data Information System) software is developed by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Data Bank to facilitate the visualization and manipulation of nuclear data, giving access to evaluated nuclear data libraries, such as ENDF ...
Soppera Nicolas +4 more
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Educating Higher Education Students for Innovative Economies: What International Data Tell Us
Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2014 As innovation increasingly fuels economic growth, higher education institutions and systems face the challenge of equipping students with the skills required by innovative economies.
Francesco Avvisati +2 more
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New features and improved uncertainty analysis in the NEA nuclear data sensitivity tool (NDaST)
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017 Following the release and initial testing period of the NEA’s Nuclear Data Sensitivity Tool [1], new features have been designed and implemented in order to expand its uncertainty analysis capabilities.
Dyrda J. +4 more
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The Relationship Between Global Value Chains and Productivity [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2017 We review the evidence linking Global Value Chains (GVCs) and productivity. GVCs are a key feature of the world economy, with production increasingly fragmented across borders.
Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Timmis
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Identifying and tracking climate change mitigation strategies with a cluster-based assessment
npj Climate ActionTo guide climate change mitigation efforts, we identify and characterize the different types of mitigation strategies countries adopted over the last two decades.
Filippo Maria D’Arcangelo +2 more
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