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Productivity Growth and Efficiency Change in Malaysian Manufacturing: Recent Evidence from Disaggregated Data

Wadud, I.K.M. Mokhtarul - Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law, School … - 2007

This paper estimates productivity growth in Malaysian manufacturing over the period 1983-1999. Malmquist productivity … productivity growth sourced from efficiency change and growth in technology. Unlike previous studies, this study identifies the … sources of productivity growth in Malaysian manufacturing industries at the five digit breakdown of Malaysian Standard …

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Enterprises in the Philippines: Dynamism and Constraints to Employment Growth

Khor, Niny; Sebastian, Iva; Aldaba, Rafaelita - 2013

This paper seeks to analyze the factors affecting the growth of enterprises in the Philippines, as measured from the expansion of employment. The paper contributes to the literature in two ways. First, it attempts to provide a comprehensive background of the various policies and legislations...

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Towards a Political Economy of the Hunters and Gatherers: A Study in Historical Materialism

Hagendorf, Klaus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

wages, rent and profit, is resolved. It is shown that far from being limited to the ancient form of society of the hunter …

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Fixed Cost, Imperfect Competition and Bias in Technology Measurement: Japan and The United States

Nishimura, Kiyohiko G.; Shirai, Masato - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2000

In many industries, competition is far from perfect and managerial efficiency (or a fixed cost) varies among firms. However, traditional measurement of technological progress assumes perfect competition and no fixed cost. This paper incorporates these two factors in the technological-progress...

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Representations and Identities for homogeneous Technologies

Espinosa, Miguel; Bonaldi, Pietro; Vallejo, Hernán - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2008

Using up to nine different ways to represent a homogeneous technology, this paper proves explicit one to one identities between most of those different representations of a technology, outlining the homogeneity properties of each representation. These identities, which allow to shift from one...

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Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Li, Sherry Xin; … - 2018

and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line … effect of social connections. Our results are driven by men whose average productivity is significantly lower than that of …

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Verbesserte Produktionsmöglichkeiten bei unveränderten Absatzproblemen - Die Zeit in Ostdeutschland drängt

Müller, Albert - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 54 (2001) 03, pp. 30-40

Über 1,59 Bill. DM wurden von 1991 bis 1999 in den neuen Ländern investiert. Trotz der schon relativ ausgeprägten Kapitalintensität bleiben aber Arbeits- und Kapitalproduktivität der ostdeutschen Unternehmen hinter der ihrer Konkurrenten zurück. Nach wie vor sind in Ostdeutschland die...

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Is the UAW a Price-Discriminating Monopolist? An Empirical Test of a Trade Union's Utility Function.

Budd, J.W. - Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies, Carlson … - 1992

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Meseum Assessment and FDH Technology: a Global Approach.

Mairesse, F.; Vanden Eeckaut, P. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1999

This paper presents a global approach for museum assessment. We define a museum as an entity which needs to be evaluated according to three well defined tasks: preservation, research and communication.

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Management and Production Efficiency

Park, S-U.; Lesourd, J.B. - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 1997

This paper is aimed at discussing, within the framework of production microeconomics, the properties of production sets with hidden, non observable management inputs. We assume that the effect of such inputs is to enhance the productivities of factors, and may be described through a...

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