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The Way We Were : Reflections on the Comparative History of Comparative Economics
Murrell, Peter - 2011
history, by collecting extensive data on the character of publications. These data, presented in figures, depict the …
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Labour or Total Factor Productivity: Do We Need to Choose?
Sargent, Timothy C.; Rodriguez, Edgard R. - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 41-44
. In this article, as part of the symposium on total factor productivity, Timothy C. Sargent and Edgard R. Rodriquez of Finance Canada discuss the issue of the choice between labour and total factor productivity. They conclude that both measures have uses. For periods of less than a decade,...
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Innovationstätigkeit im Mittelstand : Messung und Bewertung
Maaß, Frank; Führmann, Bettina - 2012
%). -- innovation indicators ; R&D measurement ; patent data ; technological innovation ; non-technological innovation ; SME ; Germany … in Germany. The paper reviews the empirical literature on SMEs' innovation activities and conceptualises indicators to … identify the key dimensions of innova-tion processes and outputs. The analysis of statistical data and surveys from various …
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Author Country of Origin and Attention on Open Science Platforms : Evidence from COVID-19 Preprints
Fry, Caroline; MacGarvie, Megan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Online platforms such as preprint servers have become an important way to disseminate new scientific knowledge prior to peer review. However, little is known about how attention to preprints may vary across authors from different countries of origin, particularly relative to evaluation in...
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Labour Standards in the Generalized Systems of Preferences of the European Union and the United States
Tsogas, George - 2013
This article introduces an analytical framework for the study of labour standards in trade and compares and contrasts the approaches of the United States and the European Union in introducing a social clause in their Generalized Systems of Preferences. It explores the distinctive characteristics...
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The systemic dimension of success (or failure?) in the use of data and AI during the COVID-19 pandemic : a cross-country comparison on contact tracing apps
Russo, Margherita; Cardinale Ciccotti, Claudia; De … - 2021
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Farmer Suicides in India and Australia : Differences and Surprising Similarities
Mitra, Siddhartha - 2014
Australia and India are two physically large countries but the similarity seemingly ends there. While Australia is affluent and predominantly urban with a low overall population density and practices land and capital intensive agriculture India exhibits diametrically opposite characteristics. It...
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A Comparative Study of the Forecasting Performance of Three International Organizations
Hong, Pingfan - 2014
This article evaluates and compares the forecasting performance of three international organizations: the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The annual forecasts made by the United Nations in the period of 1981-2011 are found to be fairly robust, in terms of bias...
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Editor's Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 1-2
The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of the information and communications technology sector to...
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Data Privacy and Crowdsourcing : A Comparison of Selected Problems in China, Germany and the United States
Hornuf, Lars; Mangold, Sonja; Yang, Yayun - 2023
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Players in the Crowdsourcing Industry -- Chapter 3. Data Protection Law in … Germany, the United States, and China -- Chapter 4. Privacy Statements in China, Germany, and the U.S. -- Chapter 5. Summary …This open access book describes the most important legal sources and principles of data privacy and data protection in …
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