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No. 2015/03 | 29 May 2015 |
Comparing profit shares in value-added in four OECD countries
This article gives methodological guidance on how best to compare the share of profits in value-added across countries using national accounts. Such comparisons are often based on accounts for institutional sectors such as non-financial corporations.... |
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No. 2015/02 | 06 Mar 2015 |
Cast a Ballot or Protest in the Street - Did our Grandparents Do More of Both?
Recent research suggests that younger generations are less likely to be engaged in formal political participation than older ones. However, there is little evidence on the trends for non-formal participation (e.g. signing petitions, demonstrations,... |
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No. 2015/01 | 05 Mar 2015 |
How Should One Measure Economic Insecurity?
People feel economically insecure when they perceive a significant hazard or danger looming in the future, which they are unable to insure against, avoid or ignore. While all OECD countries devote significant resources to mitigate economic... |
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No. 2014/03 | 28 Aug 2014 |
Measuring Income Inequality and Poverty at the Regional Level in OECD Countries
The extent to which income inequality and poverty vary within countries across different regions is very relevant for policy decisions and monitoring. However, sub-national measures are scarce, given the complexity of producing indicators at the... |
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No. 2014/01 | 18 Jun 2014 |
Can Increasing Inequality Be a Steady State?
Historically, discussions of income inequality have emphasised cross-sectional comparisons of levels of inequality of income. These comparisons have been used to argue that countries with more inequality are less healthy, less democratic, more... |
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No. 2013/05 | 23 Dec 2013 |
Home Sweet Home: The Determinants of Residential Satisfaction and its Relation with Well-being
Housing is a core element of people’s material living standards. It is essential to meet basic needs, such as for shelter from weather conditions, and to offer a sense of personal security, privacy and personal space. Good housing conditions are also... |
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No. 2013/06 | 10 Dec 2013 |
Four Interpretations of Social Capital
This paper looks beyond the broad notion of social capital – which has been applied to a number of different phenomena –in order to clarify (i) the range of different elements that are encompassed by the term; and (ii) what needs to be done to... |
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No. 2013/04 | 13 Nov 2013 |
Distributional Measures Across Household Groups in a National Accounts Framework
Valuable information exists already on household economic resources. The national accounts provide aggregate measures and micro sources (surveys, administrative records, and censuses) can be used to derive measures of the distribution across... |
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No. 2013/03 | 13 Nov 2013 |
A Cross-country Comparison of Household Income, Consumption and Wealth between Micro Sources and National Accounts Aggregates
Much valuable information exists already on household economic resources (i.e. income, consumption and wealth). Indeed, the national accounts provide aggregate measures and micro sources (surveys, administrative records, and censuses) can be used to... |
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No. 2013/01 | 10 Apr 2013 |
More than the Sum of their Parts: Valuing Environmental Quality by Combining Life Satisfaction Surveys and GIS Data
While environmental economics studies using stated life satisfaction data have been gaining attention, much of this body of work remains exploratory. In this study we contribute to this emerging body of research by combining OECD survey data from... |
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No. 2013/02 | 28 Mar 2013 |
Human Capital, Tangible Wealth, and the Intangible Capital Residual
Since income is the return on wealth, the total wealth of any given country should be on the order of 20 times its GDP. Instead the average observed ratio from the balance sheet accounts of the System of National Accounts (SNA) is a factor of 2.6 to... |
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No. 2012/05 | 31 Dec 2012 |
OECD Composite Leading Indicators for G7 Countries
We estimate the business-cycles of G7 countries, as defined by an ideal 2-10 year bandpass filter applied to country-specific GDP target series (GDP-BP). Since this target series cannot be observed in real-time, due to the symmetry of the bandpass... |
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No. 2012/04 | 23 Nov 2012 |
Approaches to Measuring the Stock of Human Capital
The paper reviews some national initiatives related to measuring the stock of human capital, indentifies some challenges to be addressed to improve the quality of existing monetary measures of human capital, and suggests developing experimental... |
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No. 2012/03 | 21 May 2012 |
Quels sont les facteurs qui influent sur notre qualité de vie ?
This paper uses data from the Gallup World Poll to explore the determinants of subjective well-being. The paper builds on the existing literature on the determinants of subjective well-being in three areas. First, the paper systematically examines... |
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No. 2012/02 | 13 Apr 2012 |
Measuring the Evolution of Korea's Material Living Standards 1980-2010
Based on a production-theoretic framework, we measure the effects of real output prices, primary inputs, multi-factor productivity growth, and depreciation on Korea’s real net income growth over the past 30 years. The empirical analysis is based on a... |
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No. 2012/01 | 31 Jan 2012 |
Examen des déterminants subjectifs du bien-être dans les pays de l'OCDE
The paper explores issues with assessing wellbeing in OECD countries based on self-reported life satisfaction surveys in a pooled regression over time and countries, at the country level and the OECD average. The results, which are in line with... |
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No. 2011/09 | 22 Nov 2011 |
New Understanding and Insights from Time-Series Data Based on Two Generic Measures
Time distance is an innovative approach for looking at time-series data. Expressed in time units, the approach is easy to understand and provides a useful complement to existing methods. The time distance approach compares time series in the... |
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No. 2011/08 | 21 Nov 2011 |
Linking Policies to Well-Being Outcomes Through Micro-Simulation
A major challenge in the measurement of well-being and progress is to link indicators of high-level societal outcomes with specific policy interventions. This is important not only for better informing the public, but also to provide the means for... |
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No. 2011/05 | 10 Nov 2011 |
Measuring the Joint Distribution of Household's Income, Consumption and Wealth Using Nested Atkinson Measures
Following recommendations from the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission (2009), this paper proposes the use of a new methodology to measure the joint distribution of households. income, consumption and wealth. Based on a multidimensional extension of the... |
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No. 2011/07 | 14 Oct 2011 |
Incorporating Estimates of Household Production of Non-Market Services into International Comparisons of Material Well-Being
This paper reports on work undertaken within the Statistics Directorate to measure the value of household production of non-market services, in order to better compare material well-being across countries. The work is being conducted under the aegis... |
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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.
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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)
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Comparing profit shares in value-added in four OECD countries
Pierre-Alain Pionnier et Emmanuelle Guidetti
29 May 2015
This article gives methodological guidance on how best to compare the share of profits in value-added across countries using national accounts. Such comparisons are often based on accounts for institutional sectors such as non-financial corporations....
Cast a Ballot or Protest in the Street - Did our Grandparents Do More of Both?
Romina Boarini et Marcos Díaz
06 Mar 2015
Recent research suggests that younger generations are less likely to be engaged in formal political participation than older ones. However, there is little evidence on the trends for non-formal participation (e.g. signing petitions, demonstrations,...
How Should One Measure Economic Insecurity?
Lars Osberg
05 Mar 2015
People feel economically insecure when they perceive a significant hazard or danger looming in the future, which they are unable to insure against, avoid or ignore. While all OECD countries devote significant resources to mitigate economic...
Measuring Income Inequality and Poverty at the Regional Level in OECD Countries
Mario Piacentini
28 Aug 2014
The extent to which income inequality and poverty vary within countries across different regions is very relevant for policy decisions and monitoring. However, sub-national measures are scarce, given the complexity of producing indicators at the...
Can Increasing Inequality Be a Steady State?
Lars Osberg
18 Jun 2014
Historically, discussions of income inequality have emphasised cross-sectional comparisons of levels of inequality of income. These comparisons have been used to argue that countries with more inequality are less healthy, less democratic, more...
Home Sweet Home: The Determinants of Residential Satisfaction and its Relation with Well-being
Carlotta Balestra et Joyce Sultan
23 Dec 2013
Housing is a core element of people’s material living standards. It is essential to meet basic needs, such as for shelter from weather conditions, and to offer a sense of personal security, privacy and personal space. Good housing conditions are also...
Four Interpretations of Social Capital
Katherine Scrivens et Conal Smith
10 Dec 2013
This paper looks beyond the broad notion of social capital – which has been applied to a number of different phenomena –in order to clarify (i) the range of different elements that are encompassed by the term; and (ii) what needs to be done to...
Distributional Measures Across Household Groups in a National Accounts Framework
Maryse Fesseau et Maria Liviana Mattonetti
13 Nov 2013
Valuable information exists already on household economic resources. The national accounts provide aggregate measures and micro sources (surveys, administrative records, and censuses) can be used to derive measures of the distribution across...
A Cross-country Comparison of Household Income, Consumption and Wealth between Micro Sources and National Accounts Aggregates
Maryse Fesseau, Florence Wolff et Maria Liviana Mattonetti
13 Nov 2013
Much valuable information exists already on household economic resources (i.e. income, consumption and wealth). Indeed, the national accounts provide aggregate measures and micro sources (surveys, administrative records, and censuses) can be used to...
More than the Sum of their Parts: Valuing Environmental Quality by Combining Life Satisfaction Surveys and GIS Data
Jérôme Silva et Zachary Brown
10 Apr 2013
While environmental economics studies using stated life satisfaction data have been gaining attention, much of this body of work remains exploratory. In this study we contribute to this emerging body of research by combining OECD survey data from...
Human Capital, Tangible Wealth, and the Intangible Capital Residual
Kirk Hamilton et Gang Liu
28 Mar 2013
Since income is the return on wealth, the total wealth of any given country should be on the order of 20 times its GDP. Instead the average observed ratio from the balance sheet accounts of the System of National Accounts (SNA) is a factor of 2.6 to...
OECD Composite Leading Indicators for G7 Countries
Gyorgy Gyomai et Marc Wildi
31 Dec 2012
We estimate the business-cycles of G7 countries, as defined by an ideal 2-10 year bandpass filter applied to country-specific GDP target series (GDP-BP). Since this target series cannot be observed in real-time, due to the symmetry of the bandpass...
Approaches to Measuring the Stock of Human Capital
Romina Boarini, Marco Mira d'Ercole et Gang Liu
23 Nov 2012
The paper reviews some national initiatives related to measuring the stock of human capital, indentifies some challenges to be addressed to improve the quality of existing monetary measures of human capital, and suggests developing experimental...
Quels sont les facteurs qui influent sur notre qualité de vie ?
Romina Boarini, Margherita Comola, Conal Smith, Robert Manchin et Femke de Keulenaer
21 May 2012
This paper uses data from the Gallup World Poll to explore the determinants of subjective well-being. The paper builds on the existing literature on the determinants of subjective well-being in three areas. First, the paper systematically examines...
Based on a production-theoretic framework, we measure the effects of real output prices, primary inputs, multi-factor productivity growth, and depreciation on Korea’s real net income growth over the past 30 years. The empirical analysis is based on a...
Examen des déterminants subjectifs du bien-être dans les pays de l'OCDE
Sarah Fleche, Conal Smith et Piritta Sorsa
31 Jan 2012
The paper explores issues with assessing wellbeing in OECD countries based on self-reported life satisfaction surveys in a pooled regression over time and countries, at the country level and the OECD average. The results, which are in line with...
New Understanding and Insights from Time-Series Data Based on Two Generic Measures
Pavle Sicherl
22 Nov 2011
Time distance is an innovative approach for looking at time-series data. Expressed in time units, the approach is easy to understand and provides a useful complement to existing methods. The time distance approach compares time series in the...
Linking Policies to Well-Being Outcomes Through Micro-Simulation
Michael Wolfson
21 Nov 2011
A major challenge in the measurement of well-being and progress is to link indicators of high-level societal outcomes with specific policy interventions. This is important not only for better informing the public, but also to provide the means for...
Measuring the Joint Distribution of Household's Income, Consumption and Wealth Using Nested Atkinson Measures
Nicolas Ruiz
10 Nov 2011
Following recommendations from the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission (2009), this paper proposes the use of a new methodology to measure the joint distribution of households. income, consumption and wealth. Based on a multidimensional extension of the...
Incorporating Estimates of Household Production of Non-Market Services into International Comparisons of Material Well-Being
Nadim Ahmad et Seung-Hee Koh
14 Oct 2011
This paper reports on work undertaken within the Statistics Directorate to measure the value of household production of non-market services, in order to better compare material well-being across countries. The work is being conducted under the aegis...