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La "nouvelle économie" au futur antérieur : histoire, théories, géographie

Boyer, Robert - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2001

économique sans précédent marqué par une croissance forte, régulière et non inflationniste. S'ouvrait une ère nouvelle en matière … la recherche d'un autre régime de croissance d'avenir, sans doute plus anthroponomique qu'informationnel. …

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Recent Trends and Structural Breaks in US and EU15 Labour Productivity Growth

Turner, Laure; Boulhol, Hervé - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

croissance de la productivité du travail aux États-Unis et dans UE15<BR>Ce papier étudie les changements structurels dans la … croissance de productivité du travail aux États-Unis et en Europe entre 1970 et 2007 à partir de tests de rupture de tendance. Il … incorpore également des prévisions de la croissance de la productivité du travail jusqu’en 2009 afin de détecter des ruptures …

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Fixed Cost, Imperfect Competition and Bias in Technology Measurement: Japan and The United States

Nishimura, Kiyohiko G.; Shirai, Masato - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2000

causées par leurs omissions. On démontre que, si la croissance du capital est supérieure à celle des autres facteurs, et si …

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The Vintage Effect in TFP Growth: An Analysis of the Age Structure of Capital

Gittleman, Maury; ten Raa, Thijs; Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

The age structure of capital plays an important role in the measurement of productivity. It has been argued that the slowdown in the 1970's can be ascribed to the aging of the stock of capital. In this paper we incorporate the age structure in productivity measurement. A proposition proves that...

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'Misunderestimating' Living Standards

Schmitt, John; Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2008

This issue brief finds that a forecast by Oxford Economics suggesting that the United Kingdom’s living standards will exceed those of the U.S. in 2008 is misleading. CEPR found that the forecast relies on a basic misunderstanding of standard methods of comparing international standards of...

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RECENT EMPLOYMENT CHANGE IN THE U.S. CENSUS DIVISIONS

DOORN, David J.; JACOBSON, Jean A. - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 8 (2008) 2, pp. 5-28

From 1982 to 2005 the United States experienced strong economic growth interrupted by two brief recessions; job growth, however, was not evenly distributed throughout the country. By employing dynamic rather than static shift-share decomposition, and by displaying shift-share analysis through...

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Verzerrungen von Konsumentenpreisindizes und ihr Einfluss auf das «reale» Wirtschaftswachstum – dargestellt am Beispiel der USA

Hartwig, Jochen; Schips, Bernd - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2004

The paper reviews the sources of «Upward bias» and «Downward bias» in the USConsumer Price Index (CPI) and discusses the changes the Bureau of Labor Statistics has introduced in order to eliminate them. The remaining biases are quantified. Also, the question is raised how much the changes to...

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The Productivity Paradox: Evidence from Indirect Indicators of Service Sector Productivity Growth

Wolff, Edward N. - C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Department of … - 1997

Whereas difficulties in measuring the output of service sectors have been well documented, input measures are reasonably accurate. Using U.S. input-output data for the period 1958-87 and a number of indices of skill and occupational change derived from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and...

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Robust Correlates of County-Level Growth in the U.S.

Higgins, Matthew; Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Higgins et al. (2006) report several statistically significant partial correlates with U.S. per capita income growth. However, Levine and Renelt (1992) demonstrate that such correlations are hardly ever robust to changing the combination of conditioning variables included. We ask whether the...

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A Comparison of Canadian and U.S. Labour Market Performance, 1989-2000

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2001

The gap between Canadian and U.S. living standards widened considerably in the 1990s. Americans, on average, were 16 per cent better off in terms of real personal income per capita in 2000 than in 1989, while Canadians experienced a 5 percent increase in real incomes. The thesis of this paper is...

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