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The ‘productivity puzzle’ – the substantial drop in productivity in the UK since the onset of the financial … crisis in 2008 – has exercised economists and policymakers alike. The loss in productivity levels, mainly output per hour …, should have been restored by now and the trend growth should have been recovered, or even exceeded. Instead after a very …
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This paper examines the relationship between individuals' weight and their employment decisions over the life cycle. I estimate a dynamic stochastic model of individuals' annual joint decisions of occupation, hours worked, and schooling. The model allows body weight to affect non-monetary costs,...
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productivity growth. By contrast, more internal flexibility, within the firm, with innovations in work organization, seems an … productivity. A criticism to the recipes of the ECB The ECB suggests that hourly nominal wages should increase in line with real … hourly labour productivity, and not exceed it. The "vicious" countries which do not follow this rule loose progressively …
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supply of skill). Third, OC leads to greater productivity increases in establishments with larger initial skill endowments …
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assistance increases productivity of Estonian SMEs, thus contributing the economic development. …
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Industrial production per head has usually increased in EU countries and regions for the period 2005-2007, but for the period 2007-2013 it has diminished in many countries and regions, with negative consequences for employment, wages and economic development. We analyze the important positive...
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The objective of this study was to determine resource accessibility and productivity among crop farming women in Borno … technical inefficiency determinants as a measure of productivity of the respondents. Results indicated that respondents had low … access to most of the agricultural productivity resources considered in the study. Furthermore, the gamma of 0.7865 was …
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respondents (98.31) were in view that the given feed supplements had increased their milk productivity. Overall, 82.69 % sample …
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In this paper I use farm-level data from the Quebec dairy industry to estimate the relationship between productivity … find a positive correlation between participation in the CEM program and farm-level total factor productivity (TFP). I then … trade liberalization through export market growth and returns to scale in production. My results suggest that trade …
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productivity growth along with conventional production factors. It also explains how increased agricultural productivity is linked …The study reveals the contribution of increased agricultural productivity in food security in the developing countries …. An intensive literature review is conducted in writing the article. It has depicted the different productivity measures …
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