The paper deals with emerging automation technologies for pallet handling in warehouses characterized by multiple …

-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However …

either breed the exploited party or educate the exploited party not to detect exploitation. Thereby a higher productivity … than cooperation or prisoners´ dilemma is achieved. The higher productivity is a benefit for the group and one party on the …

This Economic Letter focuses on productivity growth in one area of the economy: the retail trade industry. Although … strong productivity growth is often associated with high-tech industries (such as semiconductor manufacturing), the retail … sector has enjoyed above average productivity growth and contributed significantly to the acceleration in productivity at the …

I document that cross-country productivity differences in retail trade, which employs around 20% of workers, are … used and retail-sector productivity differences across countries. …

Productivity growth in the United States was considerably faster during 2000-03 than in the boom years of 1995 …-2000. This ebullient productivity performance raises numerous questions about its interpretation and its implications for the … justified on the basis of data through the end of 1999 in their claim that part of the post-1995 productivity growth revival …

Examines the productivity performance of the wholesale and retail trade sectors in light of their significant … contribution to Australia’s record productivity performance in the 1990s. Fundamental changes in the nature and operations of … wholesale trade, in particular, have brought marked improvements in productivity performance over the 1990s. The paper examines …