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of the productivity of capital and labour in both sectors. For this purpose, the authors build growth model in the … Domestic Product and gross value added per employee. Research has shown that the productivity in the two sectors is different …. The private sector has a higher productivity of both labour and capital in comparison to the public sector. The authors …
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We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have three main findings. First, larger birth cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a...
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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 …, continues. The Bank of England calculates this gap could stay as high as 16 per cent or even widen if the rate of productivity …
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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. 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 …, without any gains in productivity and competitiveness. In fact, data show that more market flexibility is associated to weak …
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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 … liberalization would also lead to additional productivity and welfare gains from farm-level selection and the direct effects from …
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