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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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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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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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The Changing Structure of Global Value Chains: Are Central Hubs Key for Productivity? [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2018 This article uses “centrality” metrics reflecting position within Global Value Chains (GVCs) to identify central hubs and peripheral European economies and sectors.
Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Timmis
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Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 2019 The value of cross-country comparisons is at the heart of large-scale international surveys. Yet the validity of such comparisons is often challenged, particularly in the case of latent traits whose estimates are based on self-reported answers to a small
Francesco Avvisati +2 more
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Are GDP and Productivity Measures Up to the Challenges of the Digital Economy? [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2016 Recent years have seen a rapid emergence of disruptive technologies with new forms of intermediation, service provision and consumption, with digitalization being a common characteristic.
Nadim Ahmad, Paul Schreyer
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Benchmarking and validation activities within JEFF project
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017 The challenge for any nuclear data evaluation project is to periodically release a revised, fully consistent and complete library, with all needed data and covariances, and ensure that it is robust and reliable for a variety of applications.
Cabellos O. +25 more
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Product Market Regulation and Productivity Convergence: OECD Evidence and Implications for Canada [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2007 In this article we investigate the effect of product market regulation on the international diffusion of productivity shocks. The results indicate that regulations that restrict competition slow the process of adjustment through which best practice ...
Paul Conway, Giuseppe Nicoletti
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Verification of the databases EXFOR and ENDF
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017 The objective of this work is for the verification of large experimental (EXFOR) and evaluated nuclear reaction databases (JEFF, ENDF, JENDL, TENDL…).
Berton Gottfried +5 more
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Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD [PDF]
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008 We provide a set of comparable estimates for the rates of inflowto and outflow from unemployment using publicly available data for fourteen OECD economies. Using a novel decomposition that allows for deviations of unemployment from its flowsteady state, we find that fluctuations in both inflowand outflowrates contribute substantially to unemployment ...
Michael W.L. Elsby +2 more
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