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This study presents binary comparisons of real output and labour productivity in manufacturing in Japan, South Korea and the U.S.A. in 1975, made according to an “industry of origin approach.” The 1975 benchmark comparisons have been updated to 1985. Value added per hour worked in Japanese manufacturing increased from 54 percent of the U.S. level in 1975 to 76 percent in 1985. In certain important branches such as electrical machinery, metal products and machinery and transport equipment, productivity leadership shifted to Japan. In South Korea, labour productivity in manufacturing increased rapidly from 1975 to 1985, both in absolute terms and relative to the U.S.A. Nevertheless, in 1985 value added per hour worked was only 14 percent of the U.S. le

ISSN:0034-6586    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1990.tb00259.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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In this paper the author discusses how statistics on time use can be integrated into a social accounting matrix representation of economic activity. Time use data are presented as an extended manpower matrix and related to Stone's basic dynamic framework for social statistics. The valuation of time and methods of imputation are then discussed in relation to the choice of production boundary. It is argued that any imputations of labour income must be balanced by valuing goods consumed at their user cost and that there is a case for imputing value to all uses of time.

ISSN:0034-6586    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1990.tb00260.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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The sensitivity of movements in poverty to the method used in measuring poverty is examined. The use of various poverty indices, and of various ways of setting the poverty lines, does not affect the conclusion that poverty followed a U‐shaped pattern from 1967 to 1984. A model for a family's income/needs ratio is estimated and used to explore the factors that might lie behind this pattern. The results suggest that changes over time in the location of the income distribution are most relevant to the corresponding changes in poverty. Changes in the structure of families, and in labor supply within families, have also been relevant to recent movements in povert

ISSN:0034-6586    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1990.tb00261.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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Due to lack of data on capital disappearance, we simply do not know the covariance of the capital stock with factor inputs and prices well enough to estimate production function parameters. Since replacement rates are rational economic decisions, the errors in a perpetual inventory capital stock vary systematically with the business cycle and such economic variables as rates of technical progress and interest rates. This introduces systematic errors into calculated parameters of production functions and rates of technical progress.

ISSN:0034-6586    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1990.tb00262.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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The focus of this paper is an examination of concepts and statistics necessary to support the measurement ofreal outputof services industries. Although applied to the business sector of the Canadian economy, the issues raised may in fact be relevant for many other countries. The Canadian practice is judged with reference to the international guidelines and recommendations. General methodological issues of deflation are examined, particularly double deflation, extrapolation and rebasing. The perennial problems such as the deflation of imputed banking services, insurance, trade margins, etc. are analysed with a view to provide some tentative solutions thereof. Quality assessment of statistics and the criteria used for such an assessment are indicated to share our concern with the international colleagues facing similar problems.

ISSN:0034-6586    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1990.tb00263.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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In this article the author describes a method of estimating the capital stock of the corporate sector which is being developed at Statistics Canada. The method uses a “Fixed Asset Accounting Simulation Model” or FAASM. FAASM provides estimates of the capital stock by inferring the actual service lives of fixed assets, and using these with price indexes to revalue assets on a constant price basis. FAASM is thus an alternative to the widely used Perpetual Inventory Method. By also inferring accounting lives using the depreciation accounts, it has other important outputs. These latter get only passing mention here. Since FAASM exploits the available data in a comprehensive, systematic way, its service life and capital stock estimates may eventually, after system development and improvement in operation, approach the limits of attainable accur

ISSN:0034-6586    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1990.tb00264.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0034-6586    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1990.tb00265.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY