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  • 14-January-2017

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    Expert Group on Disparities in a National Accounts Framework: results from the 2015 exercise

    Statistics Working Paper N. 76, 2016/10 - In 2011, an Expert Group was launched to carry out a feasibility study on the compilation of distributional measures of income, consumption and wealth across household groups consistent with national accounts data. This group developed a methodology on the basis of which first experimental results on income, consumption and savings according to income quintiles were compiled and published...

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  • 19-December-2016

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    A review of general social surveys

    Statistics Working Paper N. 75, 2016/9 - This review makes a first step towards developing a system of well-being statistics. A data source that has been underutilised in assessing the multidimensionality of human well-being and the joint distribution of outcomes are General Social Surveys, which are run by the majority of national statistical agencies as part of their regular survey programme. Using the OECD well-being framework...

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  • 26-July-2016

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    Forecasting GDP during and after the Great Recession: A contest between small-scale bridge and large-scale dynamic factor models

    OECD Economics Department Working Papers, N. 1313 - This paper compares the short-term forecasting performance of state-of-the-art large-scale dynamic factor models (DFMs) and the small-scale bridge models routinely used at the OECD.

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  • 17-June-2016

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    Measuring GDP in a digitalised economy

    Statistics Working Paper N. 73, 2016/7 - Recent years have seen a rapid emergence of new disruptive technologies with new forms of intermediation, service provision and consumption, with digitalisation being a common characteristic. These include new platforms that facilitate Peer-to-Peer transactions, such as AirBnB and Uber, new activities such as crowd sourcing,...

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  • 25-May-2016

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    The use of short-term indicators and survey data for predicting turning points in economic activity: A performance analysis of the OECD system of CLIs during the Great Recession

    Statistics Working Paper N. 74, 2016/8 - After reviewing the main features of the statistics available in the Main Economic Indicators to inform policy makers, this paper discusses the performance of the Composite Leading Indicatirs (CLIs) during the Great Recession.This performance is assessed using both ex-post and real-time analyses.

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  • 23-May-2016

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    The drivers of differences between growth in GDP and household adjusted disposable income in OECD countries

    Statistics Working Paper N. 71, 2016/6 - Growth in household income has evolved differently from gross domestic product (GDP) in most OECD countries over the last eighteen years. Using the wealth of information available in the System of National Accounts, this paper provides an assessment of what may be driving this gap

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  • 21-May-2016

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    Multi-dimensional living standards: a welfare measure based on preferences

    Statistics Working Paper N. 72, 2016/5 - We compute a distribution-adjusted welfare measure that aggregates outcomes in three dimensions of well-being, namely income, employment and longevity. Aggregation weights reflect preferences of people on these dimensions. The welfare measure is calculated for 26 OECD countries and selected emerging economies, and covers about three decades.

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  • 20-May-2016

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    Unemployment, temporary work and subjective well-being: gendered effect of spousal labour market insecurity in the United Kingdom

    Statistics Working Paper N. 70, 2016/4 - This paper investigates the extent to which unemployment and temporary work – two forms of labour market insecurity – affect different aspects of subjective well-being (i.e. life satisfaction, psychological well-being and satisfaction with partnership) among legally married and cohabiting couples in the United Kingdom.

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  • 29-April-2016

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    Big data measures of well-being: Evidence from a Google well-being index in the United States

    Statistics Working Paper N. 69, 2016/3 - We build an indicator of individual subjective well-being in the United States based on Google Trends. The indicator is a combination of keyword groups that are endogenously identified to fit with the weekly time-series of subjective well-being measures disseminated by Gallup Analytics...

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  • 26-February-2016

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    Economic theory and practical lessons for measuring equality of opportunities

    Statistics Working Paper N. 68, 2016/2 - The development of a dashboard of statistics for the monitoring of equality of opportunity should recognize important lessons from economic theory: first, descriptive statistics associated with inter-generational mobility do not speak directly to equality of opportunity without accepting a value judgment that children should not be held responsible for circumstances beyond their control...

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