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Plant Closings, Mass Layoffs, and Worker Dislocations: Data Issues
Bolle, Mary Jane; Foreign Affairs, Defense - 1993
For at least 15 years Members of Congress have continued to ask: How many U.S. manufacturing plants have closed? For at least 15 years they have continued to ask: How many U.S. manufacturing plants have relocated abroad, and where have they gone? For at least 15 years the answer has been: For...
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Knowledge worker #3
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand)
Peter Drucker lectures about the knowledge worker. During his talk, he discusses: supply as the center of today’s corporation, the change in structure and character of the workforce, the main function of a job, work as portable and specialized, the importance of making oneself understood and...
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Australia's mining productivity paradox: implications for MFP measurement
Zheng, S.; Bloch, Harry - 2010
This paper investigates the mining industry's poor productivity performance as measured by the conventional multifactor … productivity (MFP) index during the recent mining boom in Australia. We derive a relationship between the measured and 'true' MFP …
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Growth and productivity in Australia
Agbenyegah, Benjamin K.; Bloch, Harry - 2008
This paper empirically investigates and identifies the main contributing factors to output and productivity growth in … capital and ICT are important drivers of output growth in Australia, so their omission from standard productivity measures …
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A case study: Integrated work environment and organizational change
Heubach, J.G.; Montgomery, J.C.; Weimer, W.C.; … - 2009
The failure to integrate environmental and organizational interventions may help explain the lack of success of many change efforts. The high rate of failure for change efforts (50% to 90% failure rates) has been noted by many writers. While specific causes of failure are diverse, a common theme...
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Balancing the scales: Data on electricity supply and demand resources
Hirst, E. - 2008
, because of the need to improve economic productivity, and because state regulatory commissions will provide financial …
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India's cement industry: Productivity, energy efficiency and carbon emissions
Schumacher, Katja; Sathaye, Jayant - 2008
Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's cement sector vary from indicating an improvement to a decline … in the sector's productivity. The variance may be traced to the time period of study, source of data for analysis, and … type of indices and econometric specifications used for reporting productivity growth. Analysis shows that in the twenty …
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India's pulp and paper industry: Productivity and energy efficiency
Schumacher, Katja - 2008
Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's pulp and paper sector vary from indicating an improvement to a … decline in the sector's productivity. The variance may be traced to the time period of study, source of data for analysis, and … type of indices and econometric specifications used for reporting productivity growth. The authors derive both statistical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435633
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India's iron and steel industry: Productivity, energy efficiency and carbon emissions
Schumacher, Katja; Sathaye, Jayant - 2008
Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's iron and steel sector vary from indicating an improvement to a … decline in the sector's productivity. The variance may be traced to the time period of study, source of data for analysis, and … type of indices and econometric specifications used for reporting productivity growth. The authors derive both growth …
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Economics and lighting level recommendations
Clear, R.; Berman, S. - 2008
The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America develops light level recommendations for tasks where visual performance is important. The 1959 and 1972 recommendations for illumination levels were based on the principle of delivering a fixed level of performance as predicted by the visual...
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