Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based indicators provided by the United Nations …

the US with Canada and the EU, resp., determines index values for minimum wages, overtime, paid leave, unemployment …

Index has been used for this purpose. Efficiency of Indian MFIs has been calculated based on production approach. It was …

The Trade Restrictiveness Index (TRI) introduced by Anderson and Neary (1994) provided the first theoretically … related index number problem. We observe, however, that the TRI may not be unique when countries are large. As a remedy, we …

-dependent: the level of a Divisia index is affected not just by the level of prices at the two endpoints but also by the path between … the endpoints. It is also well-known that a Divisia index of the cost of living is path-independent if and only if all … income elasticities are equal to one, a restriction that is decisively rejected by studies of consumer demand. In theory, the …

household consumption, such as the ones published by the World Bank, are not based explicitly on economic theory. So it is not … empirical evidence against homotheticity. The estimates of the standard of living in this paper are based on the economic theory … conventional multilateral index such as the World Bank's PPP for consumption. …

in TFP growth. This paper computes an index of labour quality in Spain between 1988 and 2006 using microdata from the … observable characteristics, the index still shows a notable growth at an average annual rate of 0.42 pp. After a period of slight … decline (between 1988 and 1992) the index grows continuously until 2006 when it fell again. This is the case because education …

an appropriate price index and reviews the available alternatives. The principal conclusion is that art apparently …