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-recognizes learning and innovation in agriculture and its crossover supplier segments with manufacturing. The sections analyze … manufacturing bias; demand's effects; and differences in the technological process and links between agriculture and manufacturing …. An evolutionary approach has potential for understanding both manufacturing as well as agriculture, but should be more …
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A consistent finding in the development literature is that average non-farm labor productivity is higher than average farm labor productivity. These differences in average productivity are sometimes used to promote policies which advance the non-farm sector. In this paper, we analyze the...
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the rates of R&D investments and taxes levied on profits of firms that can optimize the labor productivity of nations. Statistical evidence, based on OECD data, reveals that high rates of R&D intensity and tax on corporate profits do not maximize the labor...
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The complexity of managing physical and financial risk throughout the commodity production, processing and merchandising chain presents numerous challenges. To solve this problem commercials are increasingly turning to Energy and Commodity Transaction Risk Management (E/CTRM) systems. Still,...
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We show that Autor and Salomons' (2017, 2018) analysis of the impact of technical progress on employment growth is problematic. When they use labor productivity growth as a proxy for technical progress, their regressions are quasi-accounting identities that omit one variable of the identity....
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This study estimates differences in productivity (mfp) across New Zealand urban areas, with a focus on the size of Auckland's productivity premium. The estimates are based on analysis of firm-level data from Statistics New Zealand's Longitudinal Business Database. The methods used in the paper...
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The approach regarding the efficiency of the labor force in agriculture, but also from the perspective of labor …, implicitly also of the agricultural sector. Agriculture is considered one of the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and … therefore economic activity. This paper investigates the effects of agriculture on labor productivity and the agricultural labor …
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In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...
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The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economicgrowth are complex and manifold.In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the variouseconomic insights that arecurrently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by aselective...
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