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  • 25-February-2016

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    Where is inclusive growth happening? Mapping multi-dimensional living standards in OECD regions

    Statistics Working Paper N. 67, 2016/1 - This paper applies the Inclusive Growth framework to the OECD Regional Well-being Database in order to compute multidimensional living standards (MDLS) among OECD regions from the early 2000s to 2012.

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  • 18-December-2015

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    Measuring and assessing job quality

    OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers N. 174 - This paper presents the OECD Framework for Measuring and Assessing Job Quality developed jointly by the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate and the Statistics Directorate of the OECD as part of a broader EU-supported project1 and describes its links to the broader well-being agenda pursued by the OECD.

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  • 5-November-2015

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    Measuring educational inequalities in mortality statistics

    Statistics Working Paper N. 66, 2015/8 - The OECD recently started a project to generate measures of the distributions of ages at death by educational level, gender and cause of death for as many countries as possible. This working paper aims to highlight the most important methodological issues to be faced when trying to create valid statistics on mortality by level of education...

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  • 5-November-2015

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    Towards a distribution-sensitive Better Life Index - Design, data and implementation

    Statistics Working Paper N. 65, 2015/7 - The Better Life Index (BLI) was introduced by the OECD as a tool to chart the multi-dimensional well-being of OECD member countries, Brazil and the Russian Federation. However, the BLI relies only on aggregate country-level indicators, and hence is insensitive to how multi-dimensional well-being outcomes are distributed within countries.

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  • 5-November-2015

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    Inclusive Growth - The OECD Measurement Framework

    Statistics Working Paper N. 64, 2015/6 - This paper presents the Measurement Framework of the OECD Inclusive Growth Initiative, a horizontal project that the OECD launched in 2012 to develop a new vision of economic growth that can translate in higher living standards for all.

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  • 5-November-2015

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    Beyond GDP - Is there a law of one shadow price?

    Statistics Working Paper N. 63, 2015/5 - This paper builds a welfare measure encompassing household disposable income, unemployment and longevity, while using two different sets of "shadow prices" for non-income variables.

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  • 5-November-2015

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    Comparing happiness across the world - Does culture matter?

    Statistics Working Paper N. 62, 2015/4 - The issue of cultural bias in subjective well-being data is often raised, but rarely well-documented. This paper reviews the main barriers to interpreting national differences in subjective well-being, noting the challenge of distinguishing between cultural bias and cultural impact.

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  • 4-June-2015

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    Comparing profit shares in value-added in four OECD countries: Towards more harmonised national accounts

    Statistics Working Paper N. 61, 2015/3 - This article gives methodological guidance on how best to compare the share of profits in value-added across countries using national accounts. The four countries covered are France, Germany, Italy and the United States.

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  • 6-March-2015

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    Cast a ballot or protest in the street - Did our grandparents do more of both? An age-period-cohort analysis in political participation

    Statistics Working Paper N. 60, 2015/2 - Recent research suggests that younger generations are less likely to be engaged in formal forms of political participation than older ones. However, there is little evidence on the trends for non-formal participation. This paper tries to fill a gap in this field by looking at the evolution of extra-parliamentary participation in politics through various measures of civic & political engagement...

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  • 5-March-2015

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    How should one measure economic insecurity?

    Statistics Working Paper N. 59, 2015/1 - This paper suggests that individuals feel economically insecure when they perceive a significant downside economic risk – i.e. a hazard or danger – looming in their economic future, which they are unable to adequately insure against or avoid or ignore.

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