Cross-training of nursing staff has been used in hospitals to reduce labor cost, provide scheduling flexibility, and …: What is the impact of productivity on optimal staffing decisions (both regular and cross-trained) in a two-unit and multi …-unit system. We investigate the effect of mean demand, cross-training cost, contract nurse cost, and productivity, on a two …

constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity, and decides …

This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive … most likely mechanisms for this effect on task-specific productivity. …

to the firm productivity. Then, we consider a more restrictive sample of (potentially) innovative firms, actually …

especially in increasing value added and labor productivity in EU. The paper pays special attention to the principles underlying …

dimensions—population growth, constrained natural resources, and climate change. Investments in agricultural productivity are …

productivity growth over the next forty years, relative to the projections in the Australian Government’s 2002-03 Intergenerational … OECD, and then remain at these higher levels over the subsequent twenty years. Results for higher productivity growth are … presented for two alternative assumptions. Both assume average economy wide labour productivity growth at an annual rate of 2 …

Productivity is the key driver of economic growth and prosperity over the long run. It is possible to think of … Australia's productivity growth as consisting of two elements: Australia's productivity catching up to its steady state level … reasonable proxy for the global technological frontier. Over the past four decades, Australia's productivity has been mostly …