maximization objectives become profit maximizing objectives. In this paper we explore the impact of decoupling on the productivity … of Irish dairy farms using a modified version of Olley and Pakes methodology for productivity estimation. We isolate the … effect of decoupling on productivity by controlling for other policy changes that have occurred alongside decoupling. We also …

A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if … that firms that implement organizational changes and introduce ICT have a higher incidence of productivity improvement …

Beachtung gefunden. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht den derzeitigen Stand der Forschung im Bereich der Milchviehhaltung … Klimawandels für die Milchviehhaltung diskutiert. Des Weiteren werden verschiedene Herausforderungen und methodische Ansätze der … den ökonomischen Auswirkungen auf die Milchviehhaltung beschäftigt, anhand einer Reihe von Bewertungskriterien. Der …

Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita … into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour productivity. Labour supply is in turn determined by the hours worked per …

The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications … for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of … productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social progress and in terms of understanding the feedback mechanisms …

Estimates produced by the OECD indicate that labour productivity levels are higher in a number of European countries … argues that a structural measure of labour productivity, closer to a measure of technical efficiency, would take into account … employment rate and hours of work in terms of productivity and that once these effects are taken into account, the United States …

This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international … perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the 1990s; the role of population growth in shaping productivity growth …