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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Labor Productivity"”.
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Labor productivity standards in Texas school foodservice operations
Labor cost can impact a school foodservice budget greatly. This study investigated the utilization of labor productivity standards and meal equivalents (MEs) in Texas school foodservice operations and school foodservice directors' perceptions of how variables affect labor productivity. A …
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CONVERGENCE IN SECTORAL LABOR PRODUCTIVITY AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE
The dissertation examines catching up in labor productivity across countries and across US states. It also studies the role of financial development and inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) on labor productivity and structural change. Chapter one studies unconditional convergence in labor …
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Changes in Labor Productivity in Illinois Agriculture, 1944 to 1954
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Effects of Agglomeration on Labor Productivity : Empirical Cross-country Evidence from the Nordics
… in the employment density affect the regional productivity. This effect between the employment density and regional productivity is called the agglomeration effect. The theoretical background of this effect lies in three fundamental concepts: economies of scale, labor pooling and knowledge …
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Labor productivity, remittance use, and the impact of the poverty alleviation fund program in Nepal
… dissertation presents three studies related to labor productivity, remittances use, and the effect of an anti-poverty program on migration and remittances. Labor is the biggest endowment available to the poor. Understanding labor issues is important in addressing the problems of poverty, …
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Rural Labor Productivity on Small Farms in the State of Rio Grande Do Sul - Brazil
… access and use of rural credit, agricultural labor marginal productivity and effects of agricultural labor migration to urban areas in microregion 325 in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The study is related to the agricultural year of 1978/1979 and data was collected in the municipio …
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Impact of kitchen equipment and workplace layout on labor productivity in university campus foodservice operation
… how to improve operational efficiency and productivity has been a major concern among foodservice managers. However, this is difficult to achieve due to the numerous variables likely to influence productivity with interrelating factors, such as policy and standard, employee and management …
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The measurement of labor productivity theory and practice, with special reference to the United States and the United Arab Republic
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Manufacturing productivity at the firm level in the US defense industry
This thesis will develop measures of labor productivity for a Government-owned and operated manufacturing facility that produced military products to unique customer orders. The methodology used to calculate labor productivity is the recently revised Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) labor …
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Tiesioginių užsienio investicijų analizė ir poveikio darbo produktyvumui vertinimas Baltijos šalyse /
… investment analysis and study their impact on labor productivity. Investment plays an important role in economic development and improve the efficiency. The Law of the Republic of Lithuania indicates that the investment - cash, tangible, intangible and financial assets that are invested in the …
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Three essays in applied microeconomics
… World Trade Organization (WTO) accession on labor productivity and employment in the manufacturing sectors. I compare labor productivity change across industries before and after Vietnam joining the WTO. The results suggest that industries that experienced larger tariff cuts due to the …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… rents. In Chapter 3, I document five facts on labor productivity in the U.S. mortgage lending industry using a novel dataset that matches lenders, lender branch locations, loan officers, mortgage applications, originations and loan performance. First, labor productivity at non-depository …
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Application of flexible labor and standard work in fulfillment center produce operations
… demonstrates the applicability of flexible labor and standard work in increasing labor productivity and improving quality in fulfillment center produce operations. Three hypotheses were tested: (1) labor productivity would be increased by implementing a flexible labor staffing model and …
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Worker behavior and motivation in employee-owned firms: Evidence from Brazil and the U.S
… go in and output comes out. Differences in labor productivity between firms are mainly due to technological constraints facing the firm."
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Essays on international macroeconomics
… negative. The second chapter, written in collaboration with Joao B. Duarte and Luis Felipe S\'{a}enz, studies the divergence in aggregate labor productivity between Europe and the U.S., observed since the 1990's, from a sectoral standpoint. In particular, we are interested in explaining …
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Productivity of the Regional Bell Operating Companies Under Rate-of-Return and Price-Cap Regulation
… of this incentive, this study examined productivity of the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) under both rate-of-return regulation and price-cap regulation. A total factor productivity model was developed and productivity gains were calculated under both regulatory regimes. The …
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Essays in macroeconomics and housing
… the observed differences in the service sector's labor productivity between Europe and the US. The objective of this chapter is to identify factors that can explain such differences. Our approach to identify these factors is two-folded. First, we break down the service sector and extend a standard …
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Essays on growth and development
… capital intensities are the additional ""labor push"" needed to explain the observed movement of labor out of manufacturing. The second chapter provides quantitative evidence of the Ricardian Effect, namely the replacement of labor in the production process when capital is introduced. …
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Einfluss der Kultur auf die Wirksamkeit von Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der Arbeitsproduktivität in ausländischen Produktionsstätten – eine empirische Analyse mit Expertenbefragung
The implementation of measures to increase labor productivity in foreign production facilities encounters cultural barriers. This paper analyzes these cultural barriers and their influence on the success of the applied measures. For this purpose, certain productivity-increasing measures at foreign …
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Productivity of the U.S. freight rail industry: a review of the past and prospects for the future
Productivity growth in the U.S. freight rail industry has slowed in recent years, raising the issue of the sustainability of the significant improvements achieved during the past three decades. Indeed, between 1979 and 2009, all the inputs of the industry saw their productivity increased by rates …
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