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Market Information and Price Instability : An Insight into Vegetable Markets in Senegal

David-Benz, Hélène; Wade, Idrissa; Egg, Johny - EconWPA - 2005

Market gardening has been increasing fast in Senegal. But farmers face high marketing risks: daily price fluctuations exceed an average 20% for some products, seasonality is strong, anticipation based on prices leads to cyclic movements. Farmers and market operators have found various forms of...

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Social Networks in Determining Employment and Wages: Patterns, Dynamics, and Inequality

Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002

We develop a model where agents obtain information about job opportunities through an explicitly modeled network of social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads to an increase in the agent's employment probability...

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Endogenous Leadership in Teams

Biel, Pedro Rey; Huck, Steffen - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we study the mechanics of ``leading by example'' in teams. Leadership is beneficial for the entire team when agents are conformists, i.e., dislike effort differentials. We also show how leadership can arise endogenously and discuss what type of leader benefits a team most.

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Biased Technical Change and the Malmquist Productivity Index

Fare, R.; Grifell-Tatje, E.; Grosskopf, S.; Lovell, C.A.K. - EconWPA - 1995

The Malmquist productivity index has many attractive features. One is that it decomposes into a technical efficiency … bias index makes no contribution to productivity change. …

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REDEFINED PRODUCTIVITY & SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORIENTED MANAGEMENT DECISIONS.

DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2004

In the Domain of Development Economics, Productivity is represented by Output to Input Ratio & Management Decisions … InputQuantum ratio also for a favourable condition. This is presented in 2.Part1:Expanded Productivity Algebraic Model Part2 …:Integrated Management Decision Algebraic Model. CONCEPTS DERIVED :- (SED=SOCIO- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT UNITS)01.PRODUCTIVITY …

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International benchmarking of Australian telecommunications services

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

The study compares the performance of the Australian telecommunications services industry with those in other countries. Related papers submitted to this study by NECG Ltd. and Telecom New Zealand have been released with the report.

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Review of TCF Assistance

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

The Commission was asked to evaluate current assistance arrangements to the TCF industries and provide policy options for post 2005 assistance and to report on a range of related matters that will affect the sector's long-term viability. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues...

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International benchmarking of container stevedoring

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

Productivity at Australian container terminals has improved significantly in absolute terms since 1997 according to … this international benchmarking study. For the sample of ship calls and terminals studied, productivity improved also in … relative terms. The productivity improvement at Australian terminals was generally greater than at overseas terminals between …

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Community Perceptions of Unmeasured Quality Improvement in Goods and Services

Black, Ian - EconWPA - 2003

Because of the costs involved in such exercises, current productivity measures do not necessarily fully take into … contrast to productivity (incorporating changes in measured quality) estimates. For Australia as a whole in the 1989-90 to 1998 …-99 period, the annual multifactor productivity (MFP) increase was 1.64 percent and the annual increase in community preference …

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Work arrangements in container stevedoring

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

on work arrangements in key industries. It is complemented by the Productivity Commission's report, International …

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