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Labour and Production Relations
2017In 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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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.
Winfried Pohlmeier, Heinz König
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Spatial structure and labour productivity: Evidence from prefectures in China
Urban studies, 2018This paper examines the effect of spatial structure, as measured on the monocentricity–polycentricity dimension, on labour productivity at the prefectural level in China.
Wan Li, Bindong Sun, Tinglin Zhang
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The Rise in Labour Productivity
1998Since a peasant family (or household) was the basic unit of production in agriculture and the rural economy in pre-modern Jiangnan and the major labour force in the family consists of a man and a woman, we will first make a close study of the problem of labour productivity of each and then discuss the problem of labour productivity of the family as a ...
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Improving labour productivity in process construction maintenance and shutdown/turnaround projects
International Journal of Construction Management, 2018Construction labour is a critical cost factor which affects the profitability of petrochemical companies and contractors. Improvement in labour productivity is indispensable for the petrochemical industry to achieve sustainable development.
B. Hwang +5 more
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Productive and Unproductive Labour
Studies in Political Economy, 1986When 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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Agricultural Labour Productivity and Industrialisation: Lessons for Africa
, 2018Using data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center’s Africa Sector Database, we show that manufacturing employment and its share in total employment is growing in a number of African countries.
X. Diao, M. McMillan, S. Wangwe
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Labour productivity motivation framework for Iskandar Malaysia
, 2018Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a motivation framework that will enhance labour productivity for Iskandar Malaysia (IM) construction projects. The vision of IM development corridor is to become Southern Peninsular Malaysia’s most
C. C. Ohueri +4 more
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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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Happiness and Labour Productivity
Academia Letters, 2021Liliana Verónica Zertuche Pérez +1 more
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