Multinational companies and national governments pay considerable attention to labor cost and labor productivity differentials across countries. This paper analyzes total and unit labor differentials for a group of European and non-European countries in the 1960-1998 period. It deals with (i) the magnitude of total labor cost differences (ii) the developments in unit labor cost and labor produc...

This paper addresses the important question of whether public investment spending on economic infrastructure enhances economic growth and labor productivity in Argentina. Following the lead of the endogenous growth literature, it presents a simple modified production function that explicitly includes the positive or negative externality effects generated by public investment. Using cointegratio...

The aim of this study is to investigate the ICT impact on labor productivity growth of EU developing countries. Empirical studies of the role of ICT as one of the main determinants of productivity growth, for developing countries have produced disagreement. To help clear up the subject, this paper employs a Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) through a dynamic panel data approach on the sample ...

— Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to highproductivity activities are a key driver of development. Our results show that since 1990 structural change has been growth reducing – with labor...

n engl j med 365;15 nejm.org october 13, 2011 1372 centives to increase labor productivity. The combination of a risk-based payment model tied to outcome goals, on the one hand, and coding rules that are appropriate regardless of how providers achieve their clinical goals, on the other, could inspire the implementation of innovative, technology-based, analytically informed approaches that incre...

In today's world, the issue of sustainable economic growth and labor productivity is very acute. Low levels in all sectors economy affect overall effectiveness state production system, as a criterion for efficient use resources social reproduction. The aim article to scientifically substantiate structure system factors that productivity. research task analyze categorical apparatus, essence sign...

Labor productivity differences between developing and developed countries are much larger in agriculture than non-agriculture. We show that agricultural composition across explain a substantial part of these labor differences. To this end, we group products into two sectors: capital-intensive labor-intensive agriculture. As the economy develops capital accumulates, price goods relative to incre...

Despite a continuing interest in the compared efficiency of labor-managed and conventional firms, only a handful of comparative empirical studies exist. These studies suggest that labor-managed firms have the same productivity levels as conventional ones, but organize production differently. However, the data used in these studies cover a single industry, or firms matched by industry and size i...