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Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 1986
It has long been commonplace to claim that trade unions and worker attitudes are important constraints upon the level and growth of productivity. Such problems are seen to be especially acute in Britain. Arguments of this kind are to be found in the early stages of the Industrial Rev olution, and have been voiced on numerous occasions ever since.
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It has long been commonplace to claim that trade unions and worker attitudes are important constraints upon the level and growth of productivity. Such problems are seen to be especially acute in Britain. Arguments of this kind are to be found in the early stages of the Industrial Rev olution, and have been voiced on numerous occasions ever since.
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Labour, productivity and growth: an introductory essay
International Journal of Manpower, 2010PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue on “Labour, productivity and growth”.Design/methodology/approachThe paper discusses the articles in the special issue, which investigate the main theme – labour, productivity and growth – from different points of view by employing a variety of econometric methods.
MARELLI E, PASTORE, Francesco
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PRODUCTIVITIES OF FARM FAMILY LABOUR AND HIRED LABOUR
Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1975A variety of empirical problems arise in actual estimation of production functions in agriculture. One of these is the measurement of labour input where what is required is a measure of labour actually used in deriving the given production, not a measure of total labour utilised and unutilised, available during the production period.
M. G. Kanbur, V. Mukerji
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Employment, Labour Utilization and Procyclical Labour Productivity
Kyklos, 1988The paper provides a theoretical and empirical framework to analyze the effects of change in various labor-cost parameters on employment and labor utilization. By accounting for overtime work, a nonlinear cost scheme is obtained that can serve as an explanation of procyclic al movements in labor productivity.
H. KÖNIG, W. POHLMEIER
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Labour employed in production and labour commanded: a Ricardian conjecture
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2003This paper explains the origin of some important ambiguities in the analysis of value and prices put forward by Smith in his Wealth of Nations by considering the possibility that they reflect a previous draft of the book where the quantity of labour employed in production was indicated as the sole determinant of real price and exchange ratios.
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Aid and sectoral labour productivity [PDF]
, 2008 The paper examines empirically the proposition that aid to poor countries is detrimental for external competitiveness, giving rise to Dutch disease type effects. At the aggregate level, aid is found to have a positive effect on growth of labour productivity.
Selaya, Pablo, Thiele, Rainer
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Labour Productivity and Employment in Surplus Labour Countries
2019AbstractChapter 3 argues that the ILO’s decent work agenda is insensitive to the needs of countries with high unemployment. We identify thirteen developing countries whose unemployment rate in 2016 was over twice the mean for low- and middle-income countries. Most are war-torn, post-communist, and unfree.
Nicoli Nattrass, Jeremy Seekings
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Development and Change, 2014
ABSTRACTOne of many fracture zones in the right‐less workforce is between wage labour, disguised wage labour (DWL) and petty commodity production (PCP) — between the formal and real subsumption of labour to capital. When the polar classes of capitalism leave much lying between them under conditions of generalized commodity production and circulation ...
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ABSTRACTOne of many fracture zones in the right‐less workforce is between wage labour, disguised wage labour (DWL) and petty commodity production (PCP) — between the formal and real subsumption of labour to capital. When the polar classes of capitalism leave much lying between them under conditions of generalized commodity production and circulation ...
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