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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs
RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005
high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125734
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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth
Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004
industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence … its own stagnating productivity growth. Moreover, the industry has not yet exhausted opportunities for tackling existing X …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412877
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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs
RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005
high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556182
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Economic Implications of an Ageing Australia
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005
raising labour force participation and productivity can partly offset the impacts of an ageing population. These would enhance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556842
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Introducing a scale of market shocks
Zumbach, Gilles O.; Dacorogna, Michel M.; Olsen, Jorgen L. - EconWPA - 2004
Two 'event' scales for financial markets, called 'scale of market shocks' (SMS), are introduced, which measure the importance of the market movements. These indices are based on the price volatility and are computed by integrating mapped asset volatilities over time horizons that range from 1...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076995
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Asset measurement in the costing of government services
EconWPA; Steering Committee for the Review of … - 2001
Differences in asset measurement techniques can have a major impact on reported capital costs. Their influence on total … that different methods of asset measurement could lead to quite large variations in reported capital costs. Considered in … the context of total unit costs, however, the differences created by these asset measurement effects were relatively small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125897
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The Discounted Economic Stock of Money with VAR Forecasting
Barnett, William; Chae, Unja; Keating, John - EconWPA - 2005
We measure the United States capital stock of money implied by the Divisia monetary aggregate service flow, in a manner consistent with the present-value model of economic capital stock. We permit non-martingale expectations and time varying discount rates. Based on Barnett’s (1991) definition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412591
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THE HIDDEN INEQUALITY IN SOCIALISM
Henderson, David; McNab, Robert M; Rozsas, Tamas - EconWPA - 2004
In the same time period over which the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia became freer, measured inequality of income for those countries increased. Researchers linked the increase to the egalitarian values of socialism and to the process of economic and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118811
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Understanding Social Capital: Its Nature and Manifestiations in Rural Canada
Reimer, Bill - EconWPA - 2005
This presentation discusses an interpretation and analysis of social capital that is strongly integrated into a framework of social relations. We argue that social capital is organized in four fundamental types of social relations: market, bureaucratic, associative, and communal. Each type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118864
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Simulating the Impact of Policy upon Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Rural Pakistan
McCulloch, Neil; Baulch, Bob - EconWPA - 2000
fluctuations of income over time ('smoothing policies') after making an explicit adjustment for measurement error. Since the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119120