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No. 1996/04 | 01 Jan 1996 |
SMEs and Employment Creation
High and rising unemployment rates in the early 1990s have moved the employment question centrestage in the policy debate. Among the structural aspects, the relation between firm size and employment creation has attracted policy makers’ attention,... |
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No. 1996/02 | 01 Jan 1996 |
The Impact of R&D and Technology Diffusion on Productivity Growth
This paper examines the empirical evidence on the impact of performed R&D and of embodied R&D on productivity performance in 10 major OECD countries (the G7 countries, Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands) over the last two decades. Industry-level... |
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No. 1996/08 | 01 Jan 1996 |
The Evolution of Skills in OECD Countries and the Role of Technology
The aim of this paper is two-fold: to highlight stylised facts about recent trends in the skill distribution of employment and to analyse the role that technological change might have in explaining these dynamics. Data on industrial employment broken... |
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No. 1996/07 | 01 Jan 1996 |
Measuring R&D in the Services
The aim of this paper is to identify the main problems of comparison between countries and over time of the data on R&D performed in the services industries collected by Member countries and reported to OECD, given the recent rapid growth in their... |
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No. 1996/01 | 01 Jan 1996 |
Embodied Technology Diffusion
This paper examines the process of embodied technology diffusion in 10 OECD countries with the help of a methodology whereby the purchases of intermediate and capital goods act as carriers of technology across industries and countries. In terms of... |
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No. 1996/03 | 01 Jan 1996 |
Short-Term Indicators
Short-term economic indicators play an important role in the assessment of current cyclical situations and in the establishment of forecasts. Broadly, two types of short-term indicators can be distinguished: qualitative indicators, reflecting... |
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No. 1996/06 | 01 Jan 1996 |
Factors Influencing the Steel Work Force
The steel industry in OECD countries has undergone profound change during the past several decades. Capacity has been reduced significantly, while substantial investment has been made to improve processing efficiency and product quality. Two key... |
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No. 1996/05 | 01 Jan 1996 |
Globalisation and Competitiveness
The economy’s entry into its globalisation phase has radically altered the nature of competition. Now, numerous new actors from every market in the world (see section 1 and summary table) are simultaneously in competition on every market. This new... |
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No. 1997/02 | 01 Jan 1997 |
Revision of the High-Technology Sector and Product Classification
This paper describes the methods used to classify the OECD countries’ industrial sectors and manufactures by level of technology, and presents the resulting classifications. In the proposed new classification by industrial sector, the concept of... |
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No. 1997/01 | 01 Jan 1997 |
Bibliometric Indicators and Analysis of Research Systems
This report – linked to the technical documents of the OECD manuals for the measurement of R&D activities (“Frascati Family”) – presents the essential elements of bibliometrics and its application to the analysis of research systems. Bibliometrics is... |
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No. 1998/01 | 18 Mar 1998 |
Relative Trade-Weighted Unit Labour Costs by Industry
This document presents three alternative methods for the construction of indicators of relative tradeweighted unit labour costs by industry as well as the empirical results based on these methods for 18 OECD Member countries. With some exceptions,... |
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No. 1998/03 | 09 Jul 1998 |
Institutional Arrangements for Access to Confidential Micro-Level Data in OECD Countries
This document, based on country surveys carried out by the OECD, compares the experiences of OECD countries in dealing with confidentiality constraints in an effort to meet the demand for policy-relevant analysis using micro-data. It shows that... |
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No. 1998/02 | 13 Jul 1998 |
Information and Communication Technology and the Measurement of Real Output, Final Demand and Productivity
Over the past decades, the majority of information and communication technology (ICT) products have undergone rapid technical change. To the extent that such technical progress benefits consumers and users, quality improvements should be reflected in... |
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No. 1998/04 | 15 Jul 1998 |
OECD Data on Skills
This document is aimed at disseminating to a wider public the data on employment by industry and occupations for ten OECD countries, that have been collected over the last few years in the context of analytical work aimed at exploring empirically the... |
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No. 1998/05 | 18 Dec 1998 |
Assessment of the Belgian S&T Statistical System and Priorities for Development Work
The objective of this report is to make recommendations regarding the most important S&T statistical information required by the DSTI to enable it to include Belgian indicators more frequently in its official reports and publications. The suggested... |
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No. 1999/01 | 19 May 1999 |
Description of National Innovation Surveys Carried Out, or Foreseen, in 1997-99 in OECD Non-CIS-2 Participants and NESTI Observer Countries
Following the revision of the Oslo Manual (1997) and the preparation of the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS-2), a number of OECD and NESTI observer countries have carried out (or are preparing) new innovation surveys. According to national... |
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No. 1999/02 | 20 Sept 1999 |
The Globalisation of Industry in the OECD Countries
The most highly internationalised industries are thought to be more competitive than the rest, since their high exposure to international competition forces them to strive constantly to become more efficient and they are in a position to take... |
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No. 1999/03 | 14 Oct 1999 |
Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade
The relationships between trade and foreign investment (FDI) are at the core of globalisation. Analytical work has recently been developed by OECD in order to explore the nature of these links in quantitative terms. This report combines the previous... |
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No. 2000/01 | 07 Jan 2000 |
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
This paper examines recent trends and drivers of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) which grew six-fold in 1991-98 and now account for more than 85% of foreign direct investment. They are prompted by a range of factors, including excess... |
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No. 2000/02 | 22 Mar 2000 |
The Contribution of Information and Communication Technology to Output Growth
This paper deals with the contribution of information and communication technology (ICT) to economic growth and to labour and multi-factor productivity. It uses a well-established growth accounting framework to assess the role of ICTs as capital... |
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SMEs and Employment Creation
Paul Schreyer
01 Jan 1996
High and rising unemployment rates in the early 1990s have moved the employment question centrestage in the policy debate. Among the structural aspects, the relation between firm size and employment creation has attracted policy makers’ attention,...
The Impact of R&D and Technology Diffusion on Productivity Growth
Norihisa Sakurai, Evangelos Ioannidis and George Papaconstantinou
01 Jan 1996
This paper examines the empirical evidence on the impact of performed R&D and of embodied R&D on productivity performance in 10 major OECD countries (the G7 countries, Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands) over the last two decades. Industry-level...
The Evolution of Skills in OECD Countries and the Role of Technology
Alessandra Colecchia and George Papaconstantinou
01 Jan 1996
The aim of this paper is two-fold: to highlight stylised facts about recent trends in the skill distribution of employment and to analyse the role that technological change might have in explaining these dynamics. Data on industrial employment broken...
Measuring R&D in the Services
Alison Young
01 Jan 1996
The aim of this paper is to identify the main problems of comparison between countries and over time of the data on R&D performed in the services industries collected by Member countries and reported to OECD, given the recent rapid growth in their...
Embodied Technology Diffusion
George Papaconstantinou, Norihisa Sakurai and Andrew Wyckoff
01 Jan 1996
This paper examines the process of embodied technology diffusion in 10 OECD countries with the help of a methodology whereby the purchases of intermediate and capital goods act as carriers of technology across industries and countries. In terms of...
Short-Term Indicators
Paul Schreyer and Corinne Emery
01 Jan 1996
Short-term economic indicators play an important role in the assessment of current cyclical situations and in the establishment of forecasts. Broadly, two types of short-term indicators can be distinguished: qualitative indicators, reflecting...
Factors Influencing the Steel Work Force
Donald F. Barnett
01 Jan 1996
The steel industry in OECD countries has undergone profound change during the past several decades. Capacity has been reduced significantly, while substantial investment has been made to improve processing efficiency and product quality. Two key...
Globalisation and Competitiveness
Thomas Hatzichronoglou
01 Jan 1996
The economy’s entry into its globalisation phase has radically altered the nature of competition. Now, numerous new actors from every market in the world (see section 1 and summary table) are simultaneously in competition on every market. This new...
Revision of the High-Technology Sector and Product Classification
Thomas Hatzichronoglou
01 Jan 1997
This paper describes the methods used to classify the OECD countries’ industrial sectors and manufactures by level of technology, and presents the resulting classifications. In the proposed new classification by industrial sector, the concept of...
Bibliometric Indicators and Analysis of Research Systems
Yoshiko Okubo
01 Jan 1997
This report – linked to the technical documents of the OECD manuals for the measurement of R&D activities (“Frascati Family”) – presents the essential elements of bibliometrics and its application to the analysis of research systems. Bibliometrics is...
Relative Trade-Weighted Unit Labour Costs by Industry
Karine Lepron and Paul Schreyer
18 Mar 1998
This document presents three alternative methods for the construction of indicators of relative tradeweighted unit labour costs by industry as well as the empirical results based on these methods for 18 OECD Member countries. With some exceptions,...
Institutional Arrangements for Access to Confidential Micro-Level Data in OECD Countries
Kazuyuki Motohashi
09 Jul 1998
This document, based on country surveys carried out by the OECD, compares the experiences of OECD countries in dealing with confidentiality constraints in an effort to meet the demand for policy-relevant analysis using micro-data. It shows that...
Information and Communication Technology and the Measurement of Real Output, Final Demand and Productivity
Paul Schreyer
13 Jul 1998
Over the past decades, the majority of information and communication technology (ICT) products have undergone rapid technical change. To the extent that such technical progress benefits consumers and users, quality improvements should be reflected in...
OECD Data on Skills
OECD
15 Jul 1998
This document is aimed at disseminating to a wider public the data on employment by industry and occupations for ten OECD countries, that have been collected over the last few years in the context of analytical work aimed at exploring empirically the...
Assessment of the Belgian S&T Statistical System and Priorities for Development Work
Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie
18 Dec 1998
The objective of this report is to make recommendations regarding the most important S&T statistical information required by the DSTI to enable it to include Belgian indicators more frequently in its official reports and publications. The suggested...
Description of National Innovation Surveys Carried Out, or Foreseen, in 1997-99 in OECD Non-CIS-2 Participants and NESTI Observer Countries
Geneviève Muzart
19 May 1999
Following the revision of the Oslo Manual (1997) and the preparation of the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS-2), a number of OECD and NESTI observer countries have carried out (or are preparing) new innovation surveys. According to national...
The Globalisation of Industry in the OECD Countries
Thomas Hatzichronoglou
20 Sept 1999
The most highly internationalised industries are thought to be more competitive than the rest, since their high exposure to international competition forces them to strive constantly to become more efficient and they are in a position to take...
Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade
Lionel Fontagné
14 Oct 1999
The relationships between trade and foreign investment (FDI) are at the core of globalisation. Analytical work has recently been developed by OECD in order to explore the nature of these links in quantitative terms. This report combines the previous...
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Nam-Hoon Kang and Sara Johansson
07 Jan 2000
This paper examines recent trends and drivers of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) which grew six-fold in 1991-98 and now account for more than 85% of foreign direct investment. They are prompted by a range of factors, including excess...
The Contribution of Information and Communication Technology to Output Growth
Paul Schreyer
22 Mar 2000
This paper deals with the contribution of information and communication technology (ICT) to economic growth and to labour and multi-factor productivity. It uses a well-established growth accounting framework to assess the role of ICTs as capital...