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Wages and labor management in African manufacturing
Fafchamps, Marcel; Söderbom, Måns - 2004
Using matched employer-employee data on 10 African countries, this paper examines the relationship beween wages, worker … supervision, and labor productivity in manufacturing. Wages increase with firm size for both production workers and supervisors … find a strong effect of both supervision and wages on effort and hence on labor productivity. Labor management in sub …
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Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-02-25
1937
Request increase in miners' wages. - No attention, up to the present, has been paid by mine managers of big companies …
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Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Employment & wages. 1936-12-12
1936
Boost in wages Potlatch forest workers to get 10 per cent gain Benefit to 2,300 toilers Increase comes at christmas …
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State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Employment & wages. 1937-10-09
1937
Open wage rate hearing Monday. - All sides to be heard at Coulee dam--referee Schedler arrives. - Assurance that the wage rate hearing at Grand Coulee dam will be expedited in order to establish promptly the wage scale which will apply under the new contract, was given by Carl R. Schedler,...
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State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Employment & wages. 1933-10-12
1937
More pay idea echoed at dam. - Labor heads and MWAK official think higher wage needed in next contract. - Under Carl R. Schedler of Washington, D. C., the department of labor today began its public hearing to determine the prevailing wage in this area to arrive at a new wage schedule for...
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Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1930-03-12
1930
wages, it is reported at Wallace today, and it is possible this is only the first of the companies of the Coeur d …'Alenes which will cut wages as a result of the reduction in the price of metals, which has reduced the earnings of the companies … not find it necessary to cut wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460622
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Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Employment & wages. 1923-02-11
1923
Employees get $22,623 profits Average bonus of $165 given pine sash workers. Profit sharing bonus checks of $22,623 were distributed among 137 employees of the White Pine Sash company at the annual dinner in the Elizabethan rooms, Davenport hotel, last night. The smallest check was $111 and the...
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HEALTH, BINGE DRINKING, AND LABOR MARKET SUCCESS: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON YOUNG PEOPLE
Keng, Shao-Hsun; Huffman, Wallace E. - 1999
Health, like schooling, is a form of human capital and can be expected to be positively related to labor productivity and labor supply. The production of good health and labor productivity, however, sometimes competes with an individual's lifestyle, e.g., binge drinking. In this study, an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443113
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LABOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE IN THE KANSAS FARM SECTOR: A TRIPARTITE DECOMPOSITION USING THE DEA APPROACH
Mugera, Amin W.; Langemeier, Michael R. - 2008
The objective of this paper is to analyze sources of labor productivity growth in the Kansas farm sector over the period 1993-2006 for a sample of 668 farms. The nonparametric production frontier method is used to decompose labor productivity growth into three components: (1) technological...
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Demystifying the German "Armament Miracle" During World War II. New Insights from the Annual Audits of German Aircraft Producers
Budrass, Lutz; Scherner, Jonas; Streb, Jochen - 2005
Armament minister Albert Speer is usually credited with causing the boom in German armament production after 1941. This paper uses the annual audit reports of the Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG for seven firms which together represented about 50 % of the German aircraft producers. We...
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