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Measuring the Size of the Public Sector: A Broad View of Social Expenditure across Countries
Austrian Journal of Statistics, 2016 Most analyses of public budgets – of which social spending is an important element - are based on gross (before tax) public expenditure data. However, a narrow focus on such information can be terribly misleading as it ignores that governments sometimes ...
Willem Adema
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Toward achieving smart cities in Africa: challenges to data use and the way forward
Data & PolicyThe advent of smart and digital cities is bringing data to the forefront as a critical resource for addressing the multifaceted transitions faced by African cities from rapid urbanization to the climate crisis.
Ernest Agyemang +3 more
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Old and New Asset Boundaries: A Review Article on Measuring Capital in the New Economy [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2007 In modern economies, technical change is rapid and competitive edges of companies are closely related to 'intangible' capital. While some intangibles are covered by established capital measures in the national accounts, many are outside the measurement ...
Paul Schreyer
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Benchmarking Canada’s Economic Performance [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2006 While Canada's economic record over the past decade or so is enviable, GDP per capita remains distinctly below US levels, reflecting a sizeable productivity gap.
Jean-Philippe Cotis
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The anatomy of job polarisation in the UK
Journal for Labour Market Research, 2018 This paper studies the contribution of different skill groups to the polarisation of the UK labour market. We show that the large increase in graduate numbers contributed to the substantial reallocation of employment from middling to top occupations ...
Andrea Salvatori
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Comment on “Estimating Capital Input for Measuring Business Sector Multifactor Productivity Growth in Canada” [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2012 This article shows that the large difference of 0.8 per cent percentage points per year between top-down estimates of capital input growth obtained by Diewert and Yu and the bottom-up estimates produced by Statistics Canada for the Canadian business ...
Paul Schreyer
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EPJ Web of Conferences, 2016 New processing capabilities are under development at the NEA Data Bank (DB) that aim to provide enlarged and enhanced nuclear data services to member countries in the framework of processing, verification and benchmarking of evaluated nuclear data ...
Díez C.J. +4 more
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Unemployment in the OECD Countries
, 1994 Unemployment varies a great deal, both across countries and over time (see Table 9.1.) In particular, since the early 1960s, unemployment has risen in every OECD country but whereas some of the increases have been relatively slight, as in the US, in other countries, such as Spain, the rises have been truly staggering.
Layard, R, Nickell, S
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Towards a new policy narrative for agriculture: capturing social sustainability issues
Bio-based and Applied EconomicsAwareness about issues related to inequality and well-being in agriculture is increasing, with some evidence of inequalities affecting e.g. women, youth, and migrant farmworkers, that hinder their access to income, land, health, education, and training.
Jesus Anton +2 more
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