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Uncertainty of Leakages in Productivity of Labour in Nigeria

Okafor, Samuel; Ezeaku, L.; Okeke, N. - 2022

This article was aimed at determining the extent to which leakages in Nigeria’s productivity was attributable to uncertainties of leakages from sources other than strikes. It was predicated on the premise that unless the magnitude of leakages from these alternative sources was determined and...

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Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa

McMillan, Margaret - 2023

Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These employment gains have been … accompanied by: (i) large increases in the number of small manufacturing firms, (ii) limited employment gains in large firms, and … (iii) robust labor productivity growth in Africa's large firms. Limited employment growth in Africa's large manufacturing …

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Welfare Implications of Community Forest Plantations in Developing Countries : The Orissa Social Forestry Project

Köhlin, Gunnar; Amacher, Gregory S. - 2014

Community forest plantations are a common intervention in developing countries. We use household and remote sensing data from Orissa, India, to estimate welfare effects of community forest plantations, in terms of the value of decreased collection times plantations afford users. A selection...

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Distribution of Ability and Earnings in a Hierarchical Job Assignment Model

Costrell, Robert; Loury, Glenn C. - 2004

We examine the mapping of the distribution of ability onto earnings in a hierarchical job assignment model. Workers are assigned to a continuum of jobs in fixed proportions, ordered by sensitivity to ability. The model implies a novel marginal productivity interpretation of wages. We derive...

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A Data-driven Approach to Enhance Worker Productivity by Optimizing Facility Layout

Ghorashi Khalilabadi, S. Mahdi; Roy, Debjit; de Koster, … - 2022

The facility layout problem (FLP) is the problem of determining non-overlapping positions of departments on the shop floor to minimize material handling costs. Traditional methods for solving FLPs consider pairwise (from-to) flows to optimize layouts. This paper shows that these traditional...

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Do Long-Run Productivity Differentials Explain Long-Run Real Exchange Rates?

Asea, Patrick K. - 1994

We develop a two-country, balanced-growth intertemporal general equilibrium model to examine two predictions of the Balassa-Samuelson model, namely that (i) productivity differentials determine the domestic relative price of nontradables and (ii) deviations from purchasing power parity reflect...

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Reallöhne und Arbeitslosigkeit : eine einfache empirische Widerlegung der neoklassischenBeschäftigungstheorie

Flassbeck, Heiner - 1998

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A Data-driven Approach to Enhance Worker Productivity by Optimizing Facility Layout

Ghorashi Khalilabadi, S. Mahdi; Roy, Debjit; de Koster, … - 2022

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Perceptions of Equity and the Distribution of Income

Rotemberg, Julio J. - 2021

This paper builds a simple model where there is a link between employees' perception of the fairness of employers and the actual distribution of income. Wages are based in part on employers' assessments of the productivity of individual employees. I show that the equilibrium distribution of...

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How Has the Globalization of Labor Affected the Labor Income Share in Advanced Countries?

Jaumotte, Florence; Tytell, Irina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

Labor markets around the world have become increasingly integrated over the last two decades, with the entry of China, India and the former Eastern bloc into the world trading system, the removal of restrictions on trade and capital flows, and rapid technological progress. At the same time, the...

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