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OECD Statistics Working Papers

The OECD Statistics Working Paper Series - managed by the OECD Statistics and Data Directorate – is designed to make available in a timely fashion and to a wider readership selected studies prepared by staff in the Secretariat or by outside consultants working on OECD projects. The papers included are of a technical, methodological or statistical policy nature and relate to statistical work relevant to the organisation. The Working Papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.

Joint Working Papers:

Testing the evidence, how good are public sector responsiveness measures and how to improve them? (with OECD Public Governance Directorate)

Measuring Well-being and Progress in Countries at Different Stages of Development: Towards a More Universal Conceptual Framework (with OECD Development Centre)

Measuring and Assessing Job Quality: The OECD Job Quality Framework (with OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs)

Forecasting GDP during and after the Great Recession: A contest between small-scale bridge and large-scale dynamic factor models (with OECD Economics Directorate)

Decoupling of wages from productivity: Macro-level facts (with OECD Economics Directorate)

Which policies increase value for money in health care? (with OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs)

Compiling mineral and energy resource accounts according to the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) 2012 (with OECD Environment Directorate)

Anglais

Human Capital, Tangible Wealth, and the Intangible Capital Residual

Le revenu étant défini comme le rendement de la richesse, la richesse totale d’un pays donné devrait être environ 20 fois supérieure à son PIB. En fait, le rapport moyen qui ressort des comptes de patrimoine du Système de comptabilité nationale (SCN) n’est que de 2.6 à 6.6, selon que les stocks de ressources naturelles sont pris en compte ou non. Les comptes de patrimoine du SCN sont donc manifestement incomplets, et l’omission la plus évidente est celle du capital humain. Si l’on estime la valeur du capital humain en s’appuyant sur les revenus des personnes d’âge actif sur l’ensemble de leur cycle de vie dans un échantillon de 13 pays (à revenu élevé pour la plupart), on obtient un pourcentage du capital humain dans la richesse totale de 62 % en moyenne – soit quatre fois la valeur du capital produit et 15 fois celle du capital naturel. Pour certains pays à revenu élevé, 25 % de la richesse totale reste non définie – elle ne relève ni du capital produit, ni du capital naturel ni du capital humain. On peut donc considérer cette richesse incorporelle résiduelle comme l’équivalant en stock de la productivité totale des facteurs – en d’autres termes, comme la valeur d’actifs telle que la qualité des institutions et le capital social, qui augmentent la capacité du capital produit, naturel et humain pour alimenter la consommation dans l’avenir.

Anglais

Mots-clés: human capital, Intangible Capital, Comprehensive Wealth
JEL: E24: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics / Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy / Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity; E21: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics / Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy / Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
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