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Uncounted or illusory blessings? Competing responses to the Easterlin, Easterbrook and Schwartz paradoxes of well-being

GASPER, D. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2006

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Measuring the multidimensional aspects of poverty : a study based on Orange Walk District, Belize

SOSA, N. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1997

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larger pie through a fair share? : gender equality and economic performance

DIJKSTRA, A.G. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2000

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ON THE RECENT EXTENSION OF PRICE AND PRODUCTION STATISTICS TO HEALTH AND EDUCATION

Broussolle, Damien - Laboratoire de Recherche en Gestion (LaRGE), Institut … - 2005

The paper pertains to the recent extension of price and production statistics to health, social assistance services and education. In the first part, it is underlined that using net prices instead of gross prices, as it has been decided for the European harmonised consumer price index, is...

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The Measurement of Output and Productivity in the Health Care Sector in Canada: An Overview

Sharpe, Andrew; Bradley, Celeste; Messinger, Hans - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2007

To achieve efficient allocation of resources in the health care sector, accurate measures of health care output and productivity are essential. According to official estimates of productivity produced by Statistics Canada, labour productivity in the business sector of the health care (excluding...

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Guide to the Measurement of Government Productivity

Hughes, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 64-77

The measurement of government productivity poses a challenge for economists. The lack of a marketed output and the … multidimensional nature of objectives for government agencies in particular make the measurement of productivity in government more … guide to the issue of productivity measurement in government. Hughes provides a non-technical overview of the different …

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Progress in Service Sector Productivity Measurement: Review Article on "Productivity in the U.S. Services Sector: New Sources of Economic Growth".

Diewert, Erwin - In: International Productivity Monitor 11 (2005) Fall, pp. 57-69

Measurement of productivity in the service sector has always represented a challenge for economists. "Productivity in … Institution is reviewed. The authors have produced a textbook on the different types of measurement error that will force …

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The Challenge of Total Factor Productivity

Diewert, Erwin - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 45-52

In this article, as part of the symposium on total factor productivity, Erwin Diewert of the University of British Columbia provides a comprehensive discussion of what is needed to develop reliable measures of total factor productivity in terms of output and the different classes of inputs. He...

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Productivity Issues in Canada: A Review Article

Stewart, Ian A. - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 78-81

measurement issues represent a central theme in the volume. Stewart also comments on what he sees as the diminishing importance of …

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The Productivity Renaissance in the U.S. Service Sector

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 6-8

This article, which is closely related to the previous article, is also by Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards. It points out that there now appears to be a renaissance in productivity growth in the U.S. service sector, with output per worker growing five times faster...

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