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Division of Labour and Directed Production [PDF]
We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas about how production should be carried out: agents prefer a less efficient way of production.
Marisa Ratto, Wendelin Schnedler
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Labour Turnover and Labour Productivity in a Retail Organization [PDF]
We study the impact of labour turnover on labour productivity using a panel dataset of 347 shops belonging to a large UK clothing retailer over1995-1999.
Siebert, William Stanley+3 more
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Optimisation of labour-intensive productivity for construction projects in Ghana
The construction industry in Ghana is labour-intensive and relies heavily on the skills of its workforce. No coordinated policy framework has been implemented or developed to guide and mainstream the application of labour-intensive methods in Ghana’s ...
Emmanuel Bamfo-Agyei +2 more
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Specific Features of Estimating Labour Productivity in Railway Transport
The article studies the principle methods of estimating labour productivity, such as vector, multi-criteria and multifactor. The author provides their comparative characteristic, which shows vector methods as the most suitable to estimate labour ...
A. O. Batsokin
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Health, labour productivity and growth [PDF]
Under the standard neo-classical growth framework, conditional convergence studies assume that a country with a higher initial human capital among others \'performs\' better. Nevertheless the growth implications of health, another component of human capital, compared to education, have not been investigated thoroughly within the optimum growth ...
Muysken Joan+2 more
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Productive labour, unproductive labour and productivity growth [PDF]
Σε αυτή τη διατριβή προχωρούμε σε μια συζήτηση για τη διάκριση ανάμεσα στην παραγωγική και τη μη παραγωγική εργασία στην κλασική και μαρξική πολιτική οικονομία, καθώς και στην πρόσφατη και τρέχουσα ριζοσπαστική και μαρξιστική βιβλιογραφία. Τονίζουμε τη σημασία της διάκρισης για την κατασκευή των μαρξικών μεταβλητών και ιδιαίτερα για την εκτίμηση της ...
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The Wage-Productivity Gap Revisited: Is the Labour Share Neutral to Employment? [PDF]
This paper challenges the prevailing view of the neutrality of the labour income share to labour demand, and investigates its impact on the evolution of employment.
Marika Karanassou, Héctor Sala
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Infrastructure and Labour Productivity Convergence in Gunungkidul Region
The paper examines whether labour productivity converges or diverges. This research estimates the convergence of labour productivity, and the effects of infrastructure to support this convergence, based on a set panel data comprising 18 districts in ...
Didit Welly Udjianto+2 more
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Global labour markets and workplaces in the age of intelligent machines
This paper examines how labour productivity will increase in future workplaces that employ human resources and machine technologies. This paper expands the concept of intelligent machines as systems of automating labour based on robots and artificial ...
Aleksandr Ključnikov+2 more
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Assessment of venture capital investments impact on the countries labour productivity
The study expands and complements the theoretical and practical aspect of relevant scientific research on the impact of venture capital investments on the countries labour productivity.
Aistė Padgureckienė
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