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America's First Great Moderation
Shaffer, Ryan - 2011
This paper identifies America's first Great Moderation, a period from 1841-1856 of unbroken economic expansion and low volatility comparable to the Great Moderation of the 1980s-2000s. This moderation occurred despite a lack of central banks, low governmental spending, and barriers to interstate...
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A Demand System Analysis of the U.S. Trout Market
Lee, Young-Jae; Kennedy, P. Lynn; Hilbun, Brian M. - 2010
Theobjective of this study is to analyze how imported trout affects the domestic U.S. trout industry.
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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