The OECD System of Unit Labour Cost and Related Indicators

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25-Mar-2008

Richard McKenzie and David Brackfield, OECD Statistics Directorate

Statistics Working Paper 2008/4 - This paper outlines in detail the methodology and statistical processes used for compiling the outputs of the OECD System of Unit Labour Cost and Related Indicators. This ...

Globalisation in Services: From Measurement to Analysis

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12-Feb-2008

Isabelle Bensidoun and Deniz Ünal-Kesenci, Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Information Internationales, Paris

Statistics Working Paper 2008/3/REV1 - This paper provides new estimates of international trade in services for mode 3 (foreign affiliates' sales in a host country) for four major OECD countries, thanks ...

A Framework for Addressing and Measuring Entrepreneurship

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28-Jan-2008

Nadim Ahmad, OECD and Anders N. Hoffmann, Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority

Statistics Working Paper 2008/2 - In recent years entrepreneurship has become a buzzword that‘s entered the mainstream. Politicians continuously cite its importance and the need to create more entrepreneurial ...

Defining Entrepreneurial Activity: Definitions Supporting Frameworks for Data Collection

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28-Jan-2008

Nadim Ahmad, OECD and Richard Seymour, The University of Sydney, Australia

Statistics Working Paper 2008/1 - This paper sets out definitions of the entrepreneur, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial activity for the purpose of supporting the development of related indicators. ...

Statistics and Politics in a "Knowledge Society"

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13-Jun-2007

Enrico Giovannini, OECD Statistics Directorate

Statistics Working Paper 2007/2 - Several studies have analysed the characteristics of the knowledge society, as well as its impact on the production of "official" statistics. In this paper we will not ...

Current period performance of OECD Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs) - Revision analysis of CLIs for OECD Member countries

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25-May-2007

by Ronny Nilsson and Emmanuelle Guidetti, OECD Statistics Directorate

This Statistics Working Paper 2007/1 presents a comprehensive analysis of the current period performance of the OECD composite leading indicators (CLIs) for 21 OECD Member countries and three zone aggregates ...

Composite leading indicators and growth cycles in major OECD non-member economies and recently new OECD member countries

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15-Feb-2007

By Ronny Nilsson, OECD Statistics Directorate

Statistics Working Paper 2006/5 - The OECD developed a System of Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs) for its member countries in the early 1980.s based on the "growth cycle" approach and up to 2006 the ...

The international comparability of business start-up rates

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29-Nov-2006

by Steven Vale

The statistics working paper 2006/4 is designed to make available in a timely fashion and to a wider readership selected studies prepared by the staff in the Secretariat or by outside consultants working ...

A proposed framework for business demography statistics

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08-Nov-2006

by Nadim Ahmad, OECD Statistics Directorate

Statistics Working Paper 2006/3. The creation of new businesses and the decline of unproductive ones are often regarded key to business dynamism in OECD economies. Understanding business behaviour, creative ...

Undertaking revisions and real-time data analysis using the OECD Main Economic Indicators original release data and revisions database

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14-Sep-2006

by Richard McKenzie (OECD)

This Statistics Working Paper 2006/2 presents results from comprehensive revisions analysis and real-time data analysis using the OECD Original Release Data and Revisions Database.  Studies for GDP, Index of Industrial Production and Retail trade volume.

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