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PRODUCTIVITIES OF FARM FAMILY LABOUR AND HIRED LABOUR

Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1975
A 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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Labour employed in production and labour commanded: a Ricardian conjecture

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2003
This 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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Employment, Labour Utilization and Procyclical Labour Productivity

Kyklos, 1988
The 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 Productivity and Employment in Surplus Labour Countries

2019
AbstractChapter 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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Labour and Petty Production

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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Labour Productivity

The Canadian Journal of Economics, 1983
Dan Usher, Peter Chinloy
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Productive and Unproductive Labour

Studies in Political Economy, 1986
When I started to read Ken J. Tarbuck's article, "Productive and Unproductive Labour" (in SPE 12, Fall 1983), I assumed he was going to deal with the question of how the Marxian distinction between these categories of labour could serve as the basis for a challenge to the vulgar notions (based on the single criterion of whether or not the labour gives ...
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Construction labour productivity: review of factors identified

International Journal of Construction Management, 2022
Shamsuddin Shahid, Mohamed Salem Nashwan   +1 more
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Labour and Production Relations

2017
In this chapter, the author (Ela Callorda Fossati) first reviews the relevant literature, before introducing gender as a dimension of characterization that is crucial to understanding the functioning of labour and production relations in developing countries.
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