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- Unions And Productivity Again: New Evidence From Matched WERS And Business Census Data
- This preliminary paper matches business Census productivity data from the Annual Business Inquiry ABI with WERS data and: Compare the WERS self-reported productivity data with that of the business survey and examine the relation between unions and productivity using the business data productivity measures. It is found: No significant relation...
- White papers 2005-02-01
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- OECD Productivity Growth: Medium-Term Trends
- Productivity growth is the key mechanism by which average income and welfare are improved: over the medium term faster productivity growth is associated with more rapid growth in real wages per worker and real consumption per capita. This paper has three objectives. Firstly, it updates the data presented in Englander...
- White papers 2004-11-19
- The Contribution Of Foreign Capital To U.S. Productivity Growth
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics productivity data show output growth per worker since 1995 approximately doubling the rate achieved over the preceding two decades. A rapid inflow of foreign investment paralleled the growth in productivity, suggesting a positive link between U.S. productivity and foreign capital. The goal of this study...
- White papers 2003-01-29
- The Contribution Of Multinational Corporations To U.S. Productivity Growth, 1977-2000
- This paper decomposes aggregate labor productivity growth in order to gauge the relative importance of MultiNational Corporations MNCs to the economic performance of the United States in the 1990s. It is defined as; the MNC sector refers to the U.S. activities of multinational corporations operating in the United States. The...
- White papers 2007-02-09
- Productivity And Technical Changes In The Indian Auto Component Industry
- This paper studies links between firm levels externally validated changes in quality such as certificates, awards, etc. and their impact on productivity. Data Envelopment Analysis approach is used to estimate productivity change for each year during the eleven year period 1993-2003 for a sample of 50 firms in the Indian...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- TSX Review: War, Poor Economic Data Drag Markets South.
- Winnipeg, MB, Feb 06, 2003 Resource News International via COMTEX Weak US productivity data, as well as on-going concerns surrounding the situation in Iraq, pushed the Toronto Stock Exchange TSX index lower Thursday. A report from the US Labor Department showed that...
- Research articles 2003-02-07
- Osnabruck Net Primary Productivity Data Set
- G. ESSER [1] H. F. H. LIETH [2] J. M. O. SCURLOCK [3,4] R. J. OLSON [3] Ecological Archives E081-011 Abstract. An extensive compilation of nearly 700 field estimates of net primary productivity of natural and agricultural ecosystems worldwide was synthesized in Germany in the...
- Research articles 2000-04-01
- FARO's Exclusive SENSOR Probe by Renishaw Improves Productivity, Data Confidence.
- FRANKFURT, Germany, December 5 /PRNewswire/ -- FARO Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: FARO), the world sales leader in portable computer-aided measurement arms and laser trackers, announced that its strategic alliance with Renishaw has produced the FARO SENSOR, an advanced probe for measurement arms that increases user...
- Research articles 2007-12-05
- Data Guard Systems Consolidates Hardware and Slashes Data Center Power Consumption by 80%
- Data Guard Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce the successful deployment of new Dell hardware that replaces myriad backup database servers and storage devices and further consolidates them to four servers and one storage-area network. The addition is expected to reduce monthly utility costs by $10,000, slash power...
- Research articles 2006-07-11
- US shares lower after weak productivity data
- NEW YORK AFP — US stocks ended slightly lower as a sharp drop in oil prices partly offset a weaker-than-expected report on labor productivity and lackluster sales reports from retailers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 12.48 points (0.10 percent) to close at 12,018.54 as the blue-chip index managed to...
- Research articles 2006-11-02
- The Productivity Gap | BTalk Australia
- (14min 40) Telstra has just released "The Telstra Productivity Indicator: A report on business attitudes toward improving productivity in Australia", highlighting what is termed the productivity gap. An accompanying economic white paper shows the link between productivity gains and investment in information and communication technology ICT. In...
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Increasing the Productivity of Your Sales Force
- The first task of a program to improve sales force productivity is to determine how much time the sales force actually spends selling. Factors such as poor call rates, travel time, sickness, and vacations all serve to reduce potential sales time. Database techniques can improve sales performance by enabling analysis...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- Wages, Productivity And Aging
- This paper estimates age based wage and productivity differentials using linked employer-employee Canadian data from the Workplace and Employee Survey 1999-2003. Data on the firm side is used to estimate production functions taking into account the age profile of the firm's workforce. Data on the workers' side is used to...
- White papers 2006-12-01
- HP's Hurd on the U.S. Economy, Data-Center Consolidation
- HP CEO Mark Hurd was inevitably asked about the U.S. economy during the company’s earnings conference call and the message was clear: It's hard to chart tech spending right now. HP reported a strong second quarter due to sales abroad, but analysts spent a good chunk of...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Alternative Hours Data And Their Impact On Productivity Change
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS collects data on labor hours in both household and establishment business surveys. These data are of interest for a variety of reasons, including comparing the situation of workers over time or in different countries. In addition, hours data are used together with measures of...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Building The Evidence Base For Productivity Policy Using Business Data Linking
- Much government policy is aimed at raising productivity. Much of the work that has guided this policy is based on macro data of, for example, industries or countries. This paper reports on work by the Centre for Research into Business Activity CeRiBA, using ONS data, to use micro data to...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Modeling Aggregate Productivity At A Disaggregate Level
- In this paper, we estimate industry-level productivity using the available data, but then the results are aggregated to six sectors that the authors believe both illuminate key trends and developments in productivity in the United States as well as traverse some of the worst breaks and noise in the data....
- White papers 2005-10-13
- Improving Productivity
- It is easy to blame poor productivity on external factors. There are more distractions than ever, customers' and colleagues' expectations for speedy actions have increased, and the amount of information available is immense.Productivity comes down to what we pay attention to and how we manage our time; some people manage...
- Articles 2007-11-05
- Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity?: Evidence From U.S. States
- Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge protections by...
- White papers 2007-01-12
- Hours Measures For Productivity Measurement And National Accounting
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS collects data on labor hours in both household and establishment business surveys. These data are of interest for a variety of reasons, including comparing the situation of workers over time or in different countries. In addition, hours data are used together with measures of...
- White papers 2004-09-14
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