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Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses
Start-ups and other entrepreneurial ventures make a significant contribution to the US economy, particularly in the tech sector, where they comprise some of the largest and most …
Productivity Growth in Japan and the United States
Emerging from the ruins of the Second World War, the Japanese economy has grown at double-digit rate throughout much of the 1950s and 1960s, and, when the oil crisis of the 1970s …
Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well-being
The result of a National Bureau of Economic Research Income and Wealth conference held in December 1983, this volume looks at the concept of "economic well-being" and the ways that …
Output Measurement in the Service Sectors
Is the fall in overall productivity growth in the United States and other developed countries related to the rising share of the service sectors in the economy? Since services …
Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services
The celebrated economist Zvi Griliches' entire career can be viewed as an attempt to advance the cause of accuracy in economic measurement. His interest in the causes and …
Modeling the Distribution and Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth
This pioneering volume uses modern statistical and simulation techniques to explain the process of wealth transmission and the persistent problem of the unequal distribution of …
Measuring Economic Sustainability and Progress
The latest in the NBER's influential Studies in Income and Wealth series, which has played a key role in the development of national account statistics in the United States and …
Producer Dynamics
The Census Bureau has recently begun releasing official statistics that measure the movements of firms in and out of business and workers in and out of jobs. The economic analyses …
International Trade in Services and Intangibles in the Era of Globalization
Quantitative measures of international exchange have historically focused on trade in tangible products or capital. However, services have recently become a larger portion of …
Fifty Years of Economic Measurement
This volume contains papers presented at a conference in May 1988 in Washington, D.C., commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Conference on Research in …
Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs
Health care costs represent a nearly 18% of U.S. gross domestic product and 20% of government spending. While there is detailed information on where these health care dollars are …
Education, Skills, and Technical Change
Over the past few decades, US business and industry have been transformed by the advances and redundancies produced by the knowledge economy. The workplace has changed, and much of …