Employee turnover poses a significant challenge to organizations, leading to increased costs and disruptions in workforce stability. In this study, we propose a novel hybrid model for employee turnover prediction that integrates Genetic Algorithms (GA) for feature selection with LightGBM for...

Purpose In an era marked by fierce business competition, customer retention is crucial for sustaining profitability. Churn prediction, the ability to forecast customer defections, is essential to enhance retention and can profoundly impact a company's bottom line. Among prediction techniques,...

This paper argues that the typical practice of performing growth decompositions based on log-transformed productivity values induces fallacious conclusions: using logs may lead to an inaccurate aggregate growth rate, an inaccurate description of the microsources of aggregate growth, or both. We...