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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Climate change reshapes the spatial alignment between crop production and environmental resources. Using multi‐source data and a crop model, integrated climatic, water, and soil endowments for maize and wheat are quantified and compared with harvest distributions.
Zheng'e Su +13 more
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Patterns of Technical Change and De-Industrialization [PDF]
PSL Quarterly Review, 2018 Using a classical political economy approach we find aggregate regularities in the patterns of technical change followed by high income and developing countries (mostly from Latin America and Sub Saharan Africa) respectively.
Luis Villanueva, Xiao Jiang
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MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 Construction work, as well as other production process depends on how people work towards it. The success of the work is determined by labor productivity. Labor productivity is affected by many factors such as human factors, environment, labor condition,
Bukit Ipak Neneng Mardiah +3 more
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Problems of statistical study of labor productivity in construction [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2016 The article focuses on the problems of statistical measurement of labor productivity in construction, as recent years saw the most significant changes in the methodology of calculating construction products.
Alina A. Kamalova, Wilfred Isioma Ukpere
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Labor Productivity: Developments Since 1995 [PDF]
, 2007 [Excerpt] The paper also explores the reasons for the productivity acceleration and concludes that it likely stemmed from developments in the information technology (IT) sector, including faster technological change in the production of IT goods and the ...
Arnold, Robert
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Aggregate labor productivity [PDF]
IZA World of Labor, 2018 Aggregate labor productivity is a central indicator of an economy’s economic development and a wellspring of living standards. Somewhat controversially, many macroeconomists see productivity as a primary driver of fluctuations in economic activity along the business cycle.
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Did the Indian Green Revolution Change the Farm Size–Productivity Relationship?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between farm size and productivity during India's Green Revolution, a period of rapid technological transformation. Using a unique panel of over 5000 Indian farm households that spans the Green Revolution (1971–1999), we show that the classic (linear) inverse farm size–productivity relationship gradually evolved ...
Rabail Chandio, Leah E. M. Bevis
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Management of Wage-To-Labor Productivity Correlation as a Factor of Samara Region Economic Development [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2019 The paper considers the problems in management of the wage-to-labor productivity correlation as the most important element in the strategic development of Samara region economy. The rational correlation between labor productivity and wages growth affects
Bogatyreva I.V. +2 more
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte +2 more
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