Brazil's agricultural sector underwent major changes in the past two decades. Though Brazil is abundant in labor, land …, and animal power, government subsidies encouraged the use of fertilizer and machines. Since productivity growth arises … from technical change, Brazil's drive to modernize its agricultural sector should improve agricultural productivity …

motivations are expected to increase worker productivity and, in turn, wages (the intrinsic motivation-productivity hypothesis … motivation-productivity hypothesis, more motivated workers earn significantly higher wages, which signals higher productivity … dominated by the intrinsic motivation-productivity effect. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2013 …

the model estimated is that marginal costs depend on the economic efficiency of each farm. As a result, it is possible to … explore the linkages between efficiency and quota value. …

Previous studies mostly focus on bank performance, but few studies have effectively investigated how efficiency is … issuance and credit revolvers reduce bank efficiency during card insolvency crisis in the Taiwanese banking industry. The … results show that the credit card insolvency crisis reduces bank efficiency. Particularly, banks with low card issuance levels …

This study presents an empirical analysis of the cost efficiency of a sample of Swiss multi-utilities operating in the … models in the measurement of the level of efficiency for multi-utility companies. These models are estimated for a sample of …

This paper examines the selection of data source and econometric technique for studies of banking efficiency using …

population, advancing expensive medical technology a shrinking labor. The pressure on hospitals is further increased by the …. However, productivity increases may alleviate these problems. Therefore we study whether productivity in the hospital sector … is growing, and whether this productivity growth can be influenced by government policy. Using an econometric time series …