LABOR PRODUCTIVITY AND PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY

Measuring Productivity and Efficiency Via the Production Function

This paper is a survey of recent contributions to and developments in the relationship between efficiency and productivity via the production function. The objective is to provide a brief discussion on data and on the methods of measuring efficiency and productivity. First, we introduce the reader to the measurement of partial and total factor productivity in the context of static and firm - sp...

Capital, Labor, and Productivity

IN A PREVIOUS PAPER I explored two suggestions about how to understand time-series and cross-country variations in measured total factor productivity growth: increases in the labor force might slow technological change and increases in capital might speed it up. 1 Neither suggestion was new. The conjecture about the effect of labor dates back, at least, to attempts to explain the divergence in ...

Productivity, Efficiency and Resilience of Crop and Livestock Production

Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Poultry Egg Production in Nigeria

The study examined the Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Poultry egg production in Nigeria using the stochastic frontier production function analysis. Primary data were collected using a set of structured questionnaire from two hundred poultry egg farmers who were selected using multi stage sampling techniques, from five Local Government Areas (LGA) of Osun state, Nigeria. Results showed...

Immigration, Labor Markets, and Productivity

According to a survey in 2008, about 50 percent of Americans perceived immigration as a problem rather than as an opportunity (Transatlantic Trends 2008). Similar surveys conducted in the prerecession years of 2007 and before also showed that Americans were much less supportive of more open immigration policies than they were of other aspects of globalization such as free trade or free capital ...