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This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's "productive efficiency" (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...
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/methodology/approach For this purpose, a model is specified and estimated in which the total factor productivity of Spanish regions is …
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Much of the recent Canadian productivity debate has focused on the Canada-U.S. productivity growth gap but fewer … approach to productivity measurement. Using a nonparametric programming method, we construct a North American frontier for the … frontier version of multifactor productivity growth that is derived from the Malmquist index of multifactor productivity growth …
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factor productivity. Using this approach the valuations of other agents related to this production process are ignored … dimensions into account. Labor productivity might increase but at the same time the satisfaction of employees decreases. The …
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productivity and other industrialized countries' catch-up with US productivity levels over recent decades …
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Existing studies find that labor-management complementarities (LMCs) exist. This paper adds to that literature by quantifying the effect of LMCs on levels of, and differences in, production and efficiency. I find that levels of LMCs are sometimes positively but other times negatively related to...
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This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...
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Results of assessments of total labor factor productivity TFP showed improvements where it recorded higher rate of 73 …
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