Search Results - subject:"Labor Productivity"

Technology extension services, intangible capital, and SME productivity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Fukugawa, Nobuya - 2025

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Pencavel, John H. - 2025

Using annual observations on U.S. non-farm workers from the late 1940s to 2019, descriptions of the movements of nominal wages, real consumption wages, and real product wages are reported. The prices faced by consumer workers and the prices faced by owner-managers move differently. Variables...

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Linking R&D and productivity in South Africa : the moderating role of human skills

Mazorodze, Brian Tavonga; Chizema, Darlington; … - In: Economies : open access journal 13 (2025) 6, pp. 1-22

elasticity of labor productivity to R&D stock (0.01-0.02%), consistent with existing literature. The effects on capital … productivity are even lower (0.003-0.005%), suggesting that R&D more directly enhances labor productivity than capital. Sectoral … estimations indicate that R&D has no significant effect on labor productivity in mining but a strong productivity effect in …

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An artificial neural network experiment on the prediction of the unemployment rate

Magazzino, Cosimo; Mele, Marco; Mutascu, Mihai - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 47 (2025) 3, pp. 471-491

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Asymmetric effects of foreign worker employment on sectoral labor productivity : a Malaysian perspective

Neng Long Hii; Evan Lau - In: Economies : open access journal 13 (2025) 5, pp. 1-21

This study examines the asymmetric effects of foreign worker employment and low educational attainment on labor … productivity across Malaysia's three main economic sectors - agriculture, industry, and services - from 1991 to 2019 using the …

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Heat and team production : experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Garg, Teevrat; Jagnani, Maulik; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2025

Heat's impact on economic growth and aggregate productivity is well-established, but while individual impairments are well-understood as mechanisms, the role of interpersonal dynamics remain unexplored despite the growing prevalence of team-based occupations. In our experiment, programmers were...

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Heads up : does air pollution cause workplace accidents?

Lavy, Victor; Rachkovski, Genia; Yoresh, Omry - 2025

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The impact of higher education on employer perceptions

Stans, Renske; Ehrmantraut, Laura; Siemers, Malin; … - 2025

Do employers seek to attract individuals with more education because it enhances human capital or because it signals higher levels of pre-existing traits? We experimentally vary master's degree completion rates on applicant résumés and examine how this influences candidates' desirability and...

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Does targeting relative performance feedback improve worker productivity? : field experimental evidence from bus drivers

Romensen, Gert-Jan; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2025

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Not too hot to run : adaptation to extreme heat in competitive runners

Aragon, Fernando M.; Rezazadeh, Mahyar - 2025

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