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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"worker productivity"”.
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Essays on Worker Productivity and Labor Supply
… exploring factors that affect developing country workers’ productivity, well-being and labor supply. The first essay explores how workers labor supply is affected by transitory income shocks. In neoclassical models, transitory income shocks should not affect labor supply. This prediction has often …
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Essays on information, technology and information worker productivity
… in organizations impact individual information worker productivity. The work is divided into three essays based on the task level practices of information workers at a midsize executive recruiting firm: Essay 1: "Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence." …
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Essays on social networks and information worker productivity by Lynn Wu.
… and social networks affect information worker productivity. The work is divided into three essays based on tracking detailed communication patterns of information workers in the high-tech industry. Essay 1: "Social Network Effects on Performance and Layoffs: Evidence from the Adoption of …
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Money Matters? Essays on human capital accumulation, occupational choice and worker productivity.
This PhD thesis consists of three chapters in the topic of applied labour economics. The first chapter investigates the determinants of higher education (HE) participation using new data on university-related subjective expectations elicited from parents and young people in the Innovation Panel of …
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Examining of the Role of Affect on Worker Productivity: A Task-Based Analysis
… research on the relation between affect and worker productivity has generally shown mixed results. While many studies find that happy workers are more productive, others show no relation. The current paper suggests that the relation between happiness and productivity may vary depending on how …
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A Cyber-Physical System (CPS) Approach to Support Worker Productivity based on Voice-Based Intelligent Virtual Agents
… (AEC) industry is currently challenged by low productivity trends and labor shortages. Efforts in academia and industry alike invested in developing solutions to this pressing issue. The majority of such efforts moved towards modernization of the industry, making use of digitalization …
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The Effect of Symbolic Action on Productivity and Job Satisfaction (Participation)
… investigates the effect of symbolic action on worker productivity and job satisfaction. Some real consequences of symbolic action include the satisfaction of demands and the motivation of organizational participants. These consequences are due in part because individuals interacting with …
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Three Essays on Occupational Safety and Labor Market Outcomes
… on workplace safety, product quality, and worker productivity in nursing facilities. The identification strategy exploits the nationwide Site-Specific Targeting (SST) plan of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The SST plan prioritized establishments for inspection if …
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Understanding information seeking behavior through network traffic analysis
Many of today's information workers use the Internet as a valuable first-choice source for new knowledge. As such, Internet based information seeking is a key part of how information workers find information. This study develops techniques to quantify the information seeking patterns of information …
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The Relation Between Employee Attendance and Productivity
… relationship between measures of attendance and productivity. The present study investigated the effectiveness of non-monetary reinforcers on attendance and the relationship between attendance and productivity. Procedures. Daily attendance feedback and social reinforcement were used to improve …
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The Ripple Effect: The Economic Impact of Arizona Supervised Agricultural Experiences
… run and the assumptions made about student-worker productivity. The placement project Type II employment multiplier was 1.53 and revealed that for every eight placement projects, an additional job was created annually in Arizona. Entrepreneurial project spending revealed a 1.79 Type II …
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Supervisors' perceptions of productivity of employees with preschool children in workplace on-site child care
… to determine the factors they believed affected worker productivity and their perceptions of how employees' work habits had changed as a result of the opening of the child care center. A description of the demographic characteristics of persons who supervise employees who use Dominion Bank's …
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Production, efficiency and managerial selection of workers into peer networks
… develops empirical models that account for worker interactions, managerial selectivity, and technical inefficiency in the production process.</p> <p>The first chapter, entitled "Stochastic Frontier Models with Network Selectivity," develops a model where workers produce output through …
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Essays on cognition in development economics
… omnipresent noise in developing contexts reduces worker productivity by impairing cognitive function. Using a pair of randomized field experiments, I found that noise substantially reduces productivity, that this appears to occur through the proposed cognitive mechanisms, and that workers do not …
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Planogram Optimization in Support of Small Format Retail Inventory Management
… demand covered. Excess inventory decreases worker productivity, while insufficient inventory is associated with stockouts and lost sales. A mixed-integer linear program is developed to suggest the optimal shelf capacity for each product to maximize Fit. The decision model suggests …
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Personalized building comfort control
… an appropriate indoor climate is essential to worker productivity and personal happiness. It is also an area of large expenditure for building owners. And, with rising fuel costs, finding ways of reducing energy consumption is more important than ever. This idea is promoted further by the …
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Beyond Wages and Employment: Do Minimum Wages Affect Management Practices?
… crucial aspects of job quality to optimize worker productivity. To assess these contrasting hypotheses, I used matched U.S. employee-employer job reviews and ratings to measure management quality in both general terms and across three specific dimensions: schedule quality, investment in …
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Essays on impact of information technology
… causal effects of digitizing work on information workers' time- use and performance at a large insurance firm. We make causal inferences and obtain unbiased estimates by exploiting a quasi-experiment: the phased introduction of Electronic Document Management (EDM) across multiple offices at …
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Green realities : the financial opportunities of environmental sensitive development in the commercial real estate development industry
… in high indoor environmental quality-increasing worker productivity, reducing absenteeism, and avoiding liability risks associated with building related illnesses and sick building syndrome. Resource efficient urban design strategies can reduce development hard costs, maximize energy cost …
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