investigate 21st century labor migration patterns and their relationship to productivity in the context of arguably the largest …Labor migration is a defining attribute of today's global economy, as more people live outside their country of birth … losses in productivity for specific sectors of industry (Asis & Piper, 2008). Athletes are among the few groups of workers …

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search …, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and institutions in the labor market. There is particular emphasis on the …

subsidy share in refundment of cost and in incomes without subsidies is high. Profitability of potato production is low. The …

The geopressured zone, assuming the presence of natural gas and high water productivity, may be used to produce … 63?/M Btu and a unit power cost of 46 mills/kwh. The conversion efficiency of the plant, including hydraulic turbine … energy from the well head overpressure, was 10.3%. This low efficiency accounts for the high unit power cost. A one-well, 1 …

efficiency to free existing staff time to develop additional types of data from our partners. Another long-term theme related to … expanding data coverage to estimates of productivity and/or data needed to calculate productivity. Initial investigations within …

The labour productivity differentials between manufacturing firms in Ghana and South Korea exceed those implied by … and South Korea. There is no significant difference in total factor productivity across the countries once we allow for … the shape of the relationship between productivity and human capital across countries is crucial for understanding the …

The object of the present paper is to analyze the productivity of marketing cooperatives incorporating environmental … marketing cooperatives in the fruit and vegetables sector to consider improvement in productivity and sound environmental … so-called Operative Programs (OP). The present study analyses the total factor productivity (TFP) related to …

productivity after going private, there is little evidence of difference-in-differences efficiency gains relative to peer groups of … firms to be myopic in a way that impacts efficiency, then going private (when myopia is eliminated) should cause U.S. firms … to improve their establishment level productivity relative to a peer control groups of firms. We find no evidence that …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …