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Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Compositionand the Measurement of Labor Productivityin the U.S. Trucking Industry
Boyer, Kenneth D.; Burks, Stephen V. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivityadvances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per …
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The UK Productivity Gap & The Importance Of The Service Sectors
Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Haskel, Jonathan; … - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2003
The UK’s poor productivity performance relative to the US has been a focus for government policy and analysis in recent … productivity (value-added per worker) was just over 40% higher than the UK level in 2001, about the same as it was at the beginning … of the 1990s. The labour productivity gap fell over the early 1990s, when the UK experienced relatively faster growth in …
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United States Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics - Charting International Labor Comparisons (2012 Edition)
United States / Bureau of Labor Statistics - 2003
Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to previous editions of the Chartbook of International...
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MULTINATIONALS AND US RODUCTIVITYLEADERSHIP: EVIDENCE FROM GREATBRITAIN
Martin, Ralf; Criscuolo, Chiara - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2005
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Sources of Earnings Instability : Estimates from an On-the-Job Search Model of the U.S. Labor Market
Flabbi, Luca; Leonardi, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and1990s. This paper develops and estimates an on-the-job search model of the labor market tostudy the contribution of wage inequality and job mobility in explaining earnings instability. Tostudy the evolution...
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National Economic Accounts
United States / Bureau of Economic Analysis
BEA’s national economic statistics provide a comprehensive view of U.S. production, consumption, investment, exports and imports, and income and saving. These statistics are best known by summary measures such as gross domestic product (GDP), corporate profits, personal income and spending,...
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Survey of Professional Forecasters
Federal Reserve Bank <Philadelphia, Pa.>
The Survey of Professional Forecasters is the oldest quarterly survey of macroeconomic forecasts in the United States. The survey began in 1968 and was conducted by the American Statistical Association and the National Bureau of Economic Research. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia took...
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Best Performing Cities
DeVol, Ross; Wallace, Lorna - 2004
This research report from the Milken Institute ranks U.S. metropolitan areas that are recording the top economic performance and creating the most jobs in the nation. The index is an outcomes-based measure as opposed to one that incorporates explicit measures of business costs, cost-of-living...
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Advertising Age - Data center
Ad Age Group <New York, NY>
The Ad Age DataCenter provides exclusive advertising and marketing industry data compiled by the Ad Age Research Department. This constantly updated collection includes more than 600 separate charts arranged in four major categories: Marketers/ Advertisers, Media, Agencies, and Salary Surveys.
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Thompson Reuters / University of Michigan - Surveys of Consumers
Survey Research Center <Ann Arbor, Mich.>
The Surveys of Consumers has been conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan since 1946. Each month, 500 individuals are randomly selected from the contiguous United States (48 states plus the District of Columbia) to participate in the Surveys of Consumers. The...
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