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Anand, Paul; Santos, Cristina; Smith, Ron - Department of Economics, Open University - 2007

It has often been claimed that it is impossible to measure human capabilities but within the methodological conventions of household survey design, we show that some non- financial capability indicators do already exist and we demonstrate how similar indicators, covering a wide range of life...

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Aggregate Labour Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States: Definitions, Trends and Measurement Issues

Smith, Jeremy - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2004

measurement of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada and the United States. The paper examines all data sources for …

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The Boskin Commission Report: A Retrospective One Decade Later

Gordon, Robert J. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 7-22

The author summarizes the report’s methods, findings, and recommendations, and then reviews the comments and criticisms that appeared soon after the report was issued. Changes in CPI methodology are also summarized and assessed, as is recent research on related issues. Based on recent...

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The Measurement of TFP in Argentina, 1990-2004: A Case of the Tyranny of Numbers, Economic Cycles and Methodology

Coremberg, Ariel - In: International Productivity Monitor 17 (2008) Fall, pp. 52-74

The aim of this study is to examine the main sources of growth in Argentina for the period 1990-2004 in order to identify the dominant growth profile: either extensive, which is associated with factor accumulation and utilisation, or intensive, which is based on productivity gains. The study...

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The ICOP Manufacturing Database: International Comparisons of Productivity Levels

Ark, Bart van; Timmer, Marcel - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 44-51

International productivity comparisons have traditionally focused on productivity growth rates. International productivity level comparisons are much more complex, requiring comparable industry data and estimates of purchasing power at a detailed industry level. The International Comparisons of...

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The BLS Response to the Boskin Commission Report

Greenlees, John S. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 23-41

The author provides a BLS response to the Boskin Commission from the perspective of ten years following the release of the report. He documents the research on price indexes done at the BLS in the first half of the 1990s that pointed to upward CPI bias, and discusses how these results eventually...

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The Boskin Commission Report After a Decade

Triplett, Jack E. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 24-60

, promoting open discussion of price measurement issues, engendering dialogue between statistical agencies and users, and … measurement and principles for allocation of resources to the dependent population. …

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Policy Implications of the Boskin Commission Report

Baily, Martin Neil - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 74-83

The author supports the type of the back-of-the-envelope calculations of CPI bias that the Commission used so effectively to attract public attention to its report. In the area of quality adjustment, however, he criticizes the Boskin Commission for what he calls “premature extrapolation,”...

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The Boskin Commission Report After a Decade: After-life or Requiem?

Berndt, Ernst R. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 61-73

The author provides a political economy interpretation of the rise and fall of public interest in price measurement … Academy of Sciences panel, to improve CPI measurement. The author examines the thorny issue of the CPI for health care, with … outcomes. He concludes that the BLS has responded constructively to the recommendations from the various price measurement …

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The Development of Capability Indicators

Anand, Paul; Hunter, Graham; Carter, Ian; Dowding, Keith; … - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 10 (2009) 1, pp. 125-152

This paper is motivated by sustained interest in the capabilities approach to welfare economics combined with the paucity of economic statistics that measure capabilities at the individual level. Specifically, it takes a much discussed account of the normatively desirable capabilities...

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