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efficiency change has been invariant to the treatment of the undesirable output as input. The average productivity growth is 2 …, the productivity growth is driven by technological change. …
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This paper examines the issue of labor productivity in hotels. It elaborates on various measurement methods used by … American hoteliers including staffing guides, with a special focus on productivity standards. Advantages of physical, financial …
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productivity of their employees. In a cross-sectional study of 86 employees and 17 managers in an Information Technology (IT … manager. Furthermore, we hypothesize that optimistic managers embody positive leadership—employing a strengths-based approach … subset of this data prospectively, with 39 employees and 14 managers, manager optimism predicted project performance. Our …
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This paper considers a dynamic matching model with imperfectly observable worker effort. In equilibrium, the wage distribution is truncated from below by a no-shirking condition. This downward wage rigidity induces the same type of inefficient churning and "contractual fragility" as in Ramey and...
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impact on physics productivity. To achieve that goal, we used the model of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is based on …, increasing inequality regional furniture industry, but this efficiency fall has been accompanied by an increase in productivity. …
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The analysis of technical efficiency (TE) on the small-scale fishery is relevant for several reasons. While this type of fishery is highly common in developing countries like Mexico, there are a very limited number of analyses assessing their efficiency. Indeed, there is no precise information...
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The measurement of productivity fluctuations has been the focus of decades-long interest. In addition to broad … structural forces driving productivity changes, there is more recent interest in measuring and identifying the heterogeneous … productivity growth arising from the accumulation of production experience by a firm. This paper proposes a bounded learning …
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The paper measures the U.S. Farm Credit System’s technical efficiency from 2000 to 2009 using a stochastic frontier production function model with quarterly unbalanced panel data. The paper's results suggest that the FCS has not efficiently utilized their inputs. On an average, the system...
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This paper starts the debate regarding the likely impact of post-accession public support in the New Member States on their farming sector’s efficiency. While one aim of farm support in the European Union (EU) is to promote efficient farms that can compete internationally, a higher level of...
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A criticism often levelled at poor HR practice is that practitioners "don’t know the business" or are "isolated in their ivory towers". However the diverse nature of the roles played by HR practitioners naturally leads to the development of networks not only within the organisation, but...
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