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an efficient work organization. In this article it is analyzed the evolution of the productivity and employment levels in … labor productivity is also the pointer of the quality of life in a economy, therefore it represents the value produced by … the work. Moreover, the total factors productivity is the measure of the technological and organizational progress (don …
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associated with lower productivity growth and, hence, lower economic growth in the coming years. This paper studies the issue …, focusing on the dynamics of entrepreneurship and productivity around the time of the Great Recession. The author looks first at … the recent evolution of alternative measures of entrepreneurship and of productivity, and then analyzes the relationship …
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-down approach of Diewert and Yu (2012). Inputs and outputs are measured and used to estimate the quarterly total factor productivity …
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profitability and productivity that can outweigh the costs of the policy. This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the link … between environmental policy stringency and productivity growth, and the various channels through which such effects can take …
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The aim of the paper is to measure the efficiency of an industry, and to decompose it into firm efficiencies—which indicate how close firms approximate best practices—and an organization efficiency—which indicates the degree of optimality of the number of firms and their distribution. The...
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The Private Sector Development Project (PSDP) was a culmination of the renewed commitment of the Government of Ghana to accelerate the pace of development of Ghana’s private sector. The project was also a direct result of the Business Community’s own assessment of Lingering issues which...
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The paper criticises the concept of total factor productivity as a measure of technical change and economic performance … productivity is more a measure of "noise" than a genuine indicator of technical progress. In spite of the above drawbacks, total … factor productivity is still widely used in empirical work on technical change. This is all the more surprising since the …
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We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …
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Technologies (ICT) on economic growth and productivity at an aggregate level. It focuses on possible network effects and spillovers … effects into account, the paper shows that the impact of ICT on productivity is almost twice as high as compared to a model …
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The aim of this study is to identify disparities in technical efficiency and the influence of infrastructure on the convergence in efficiency for the states of Mexico. It has estimated a translog production function following the model of Battese and Coelli (1995). The results show that public...
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