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employment, especially among young and small companies. Impacts on the productivity are, however, uncertain. Cooperation of … growth and employment, and an overlook on the impacts of different policy measures on companies. The role of large companies … help firms to grow larger but do not improve their productivity. …
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Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … or specialized and (2) an econometrics examination of causes of structural and total factor productivity (TFP) change for … U.S. agriculture. Farm size, farm specialization, and part-time farming are the structural dimension emphasized, and …
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Health status is an important element in the decision to continue working or retire among older workers. Given the demographic projections for the next four decades, there will be increasing opportunities for older workers to remain in the workforce. However, an individual's decision is likely...
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Increasing life expectancies and uncertainty about future retirement incomes are likely to lead to various changes in behaviour. As expectations are revised, one potentially important adjustment mechanism is in labour force participation rates. There is already evidence these are rising for...
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This paper aims to quantify some of the costs associated with ill health in New Zealand. The main focus is in estimating indirect costs as opposed to direct health care expenditure costs. In particular, it estimates the cost of absenteeism, presenteeism, working less and not working at all owing...
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Developed countries, including New Zealand, used to consider their populations wholly literate, in the sense that almost all adults could read and write. Contemporary definitions expand the concept of literacy to include wider cognitive skills, and extend it across the whole population: people...
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Productivity growth is a key determinant of rising living standards. The agricultural sector has been an important … contributor to the overall growth of productivity in New Zealand. The average rate of multifactor productivity growth in … agriculture from 1926-27 to 2000-01 was 1.8%. We find evidence that this rate has been increasing especially since the reforms of …
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of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after acquisition. Our …
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better export and employment performance requires a decline of relative unit labour costs and an improvement of business …
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