This study analyzes the factors affecting physician and dentist’s productivity and the fees they charge for their …

In 1996, a blueprint on the integrated approach towards improving total factor productivity (TFP) in the Philippines … was formulated in a document called the National Action Agenda for Productivity: 1997-1998 (NAAP). NAAP achieved modest … accomplishments. Thus, there is a need to continue and build on its maiden achievements in order to remove productivity …

This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of simultaneous antitrust and trade policy on productivity … productivity by as much as 18%. …

A model is used to study the impact of ownership on productivity and wages. Data on private and public manufacturing in … Turkey during the 1950-1998 period indicate that productivity is higher in the private sector.There is a close relationship … between wages and productivity in the private sector; no such relationship exists in the public sector. …

, under the assumption that a positive relationship exists between efficiency and productivity. Finally, we compare … institutional efficiency scores of national training markets to other measures of productivity and ask whether a particular set of …

Because of the costs involved in such exercises, current productivity measures do not necessarily fully take into … contrast to productivity (incorporating changes in measured quality) estimates. For Australia as a whole in the 1989-90 to 1998 …-99 period, the annual multifactor productivity (MFP) increase was 1.64 percent and the annual increase in community preference …

on work arrangements in key industries. It is complemented by the Productivity Commission's report, International …

characteristics of these spatial platforms for measuring rural economic performance are explored through plant level productivity data … city regions. The city-region platform makes the rural productivity performance look worse than it really is but since 2000 …, rural districts have not been charged with pursuing productivity objectives anyway. …

technology. Hiring highly skilled workers is initially costly to firms but is productivity-enhancing in the long run. …