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In Search of the Silver Bullet for Productivity Growth: A Review Article of The Power of Productivity and Transforming the European Economy
Ark, Bart van - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 79-86
This article reviews The Power of Productivity by William W. Lewis and Transforming the European Economy by Martin Neil … Baily and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard. While Lewis postulates a single silver bullet for productivity growth, namely the freedom … productivity -- these books are sure to be seen as two of the major contributions to the debate on productivity and growth around …
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Exploring the relationship between job quality and firm productivity in the manufacturing sector : panel data evidence from Ethiopia
Tigabu Degu Getahun; Fetene, Gebeyehu Manie; … - 2024
investigates links between firm productivity and monetary and non-monetary dimensions of job quality. The results point to a … positive impact of higher salaries on firm productivity, but limited effects of non-monetary job quality indicators … quality indicators had a weak impact on productivity, however, reducing the incentive of employers to invest in job quality …
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Job quality, health and productivity : an evidence-based framework for analysis
Saint-Martin, Anne; Inanc, Hande; Prinz, Christopher - 2018
build a career, and their productivity. Investments in quality working environments can be welfare enhancing and …
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Efficienza e Qualità della Vita
Patrizii, Vincenzo; Pettini, Anna; Resce, Giuliano - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2014
Il primo obiettivo di questo lavoro è proporre un metodo di aggregazione del Better Life Index (BLI), che non richieda alcuna scelta riguardo al peso relativo delle singole variabili; il secondo obiettivo è valutare l’efficienza nella produzione del BLI. Per entrambi i fini si sceglie di...
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Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2019
labour markets. Moreover, the paper highlights the knowledge gaps with regard to the longer-term and gender-specific welfare …
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The social protection system having in mind the economic-financial crisis
student, Claudiu Mihaita Urseanu phd. - In: Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series 4 (2011) 39, pp. 277-290
In this paper we tried to identify the behavior related to contemporary social protection systems, taking into account the socio - demographic community in a time of economic – financial crisis. We analyzed each of the four identified social protection systems and we determined their positive...
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How to Measure Living Standards and Productivity
Oulton, Nicholas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
This paper sets out a general algorithm for calculating true cost-of-living indices or true producer price indices when demand is not homothetic, i.e. when not all expenditure elasticities are equal to one. In principle, economic theory tells us how we should calculate a true cost-of-living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476317
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How to measure living standards and productivity
Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
This paper sets out a general algorithm for calculating true cost-of-living indices or true producer price indices when demand is not homothetic, i.e. when not all expenditure elasticities are equal to one. In principle, economic theory tells us how we should calculate a true cost-of-living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071515
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Baseline analysis of productivity changes with and without considering carbon dioxide emissions in the major manufacturing sector of Indonesia
Armundito, Erik; Kaneko, Shinji - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
, in the form of total factor productivity (TFP), from 1990 to 2010 with and without considering carbon dioxide (CO2 …. The Malmquist productivity index is employed to estimate TFP without CO2 emissions over time, whereas the Malmquist …-Luenberger productivity index is applied to estimate TFP with CO2 emissions over time. Furthermore, the influence of energy factors on …
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Productivity interpretations of the Farrell efficiency measures and the Malmquist index and its decomposition
Førsund, Finn R. - 2015 - This version August 2015
The ratio definition of efficiency has the form of a productivity measure. But the weights are endogenous variables and … they do not function as weights in a productivity index proper. It is shown that extended Farrell measures of efficiency … can all be given an interpretation as productivity measures as observed productivity relative to productivity at the …
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