The aim of this study was to investigate a productivity measurement at the SouthAfrican Minting Company and evaluate … +price recovery” (PPP) model and multi-factor productivity measurement model(MFPMM). APC model was selected as the suitable … the relationship between productivity andquality.Special emphasis was given to profit-linked total factor model as the …

between infrastructure and private productivity. The second subject is the determinants of regional infrastructure investment … infrastructure to private production; the essays three to five study besides the productivity effects also the determinants of …

rigidity. The third essay analyses how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm performance in a … among heterogeneous producers and increases average productivity and profit levels, firm-level bargaining allows less … productive entrants to remain in the market. The positive effect of centralised bargaining on average productivity can, however …

on productivity growth, and additionally export behavior has to be persistent over time. Both conditions are empirically …

-, consultation-, and co-determination rights. The effects works councils have on productivity and profits are estimated for medium …-sized manufacturing firms using information from the IAB establishment panel. The results indicate a positive effect on productivity of 6 …

Model induction from relational data requires aggregation of values ofattributes of related entities. This paper makes … needed to learn these concepts. (2) Expanding onelevel of the hierarchy, it introduces new aggregation operators thatmodel … byclass. (3) It demonstrates empirically on a noisy business domain thatmore-complex aggregation methods can increase …