in some situations the producers desire to maximize total profit of decision making units (dmus) while the inputs and outputs prices of dmus change from one time period to another. in this paper, the researchers develop productivity index when producers are going to maximize total profit when the price of inputs and outputs are known.the proposed method uses all price information about inputs a...

investing in research and development spending (r&d) affects total factor productivity (tfp).recently new theories of economic growth have emphasized the relationship between r&d and tfpand also identified a number of channels through which a country’s r&d affects tfp of its tradepartner. this study seeks to estimate the effect of agricultural r&d and education spending and some...

introduction: health care systems depend critically on the size, skill, and commitment of the health workforce. therefore, researchers have a close observation on the subjects which leads to an increase in the productivity of human resources. this study aims at determining the relationship between the quality of work life and the productivity of knowledge workers of the central field of shiraz ...

production is hard to achieve by increasing cropping area due to limited water resources. so, increased yield per unit area may be the solution to increase production. investigating productivity of production factors is very important in this context. the objective of this study is to measure the productivity of production factors in sugar beet production in fars province. the data needed for t...

the purpose of this study is measuring total factor productivity (tfp) growth of sugar beet for different provinces of iran and then decomposing it to the changes in technical change, managerial efficiency change and scale efficiency change. for this purpose we used the data envelopment analysis (dea) method and malmquist productivity index. results showed that average growth of total factor pr...

P roductivity promotion has received a key attention in contemporary macroeconomic analysis. Productivity of labor driven, in particular, by human capital (i.e. health and education), is seen vitally more important. Labor qualities in terms of health and education (treated as flow and stock variables), have a bearing on labor productivity. The main objective of this paper is to ident...

human resource productivity is an important subject in theory and practice, so increase of productivity is the first priority in most of organizations. the main purpose of most organizations is creating value for their shareholders. so it is necessary to understand effect of human resource productivity in achieving this goal and find the obstacles. the purpose of this research is examining the ...

in despite of all progress in technology in mining industry, still labor is one of the key factors in mining operation. this paper presents a system dynamics approach to evaluate the mining labor productivity. therefore, after the identification of main effective variables, two quantitative and qualitative models were built. the qualitative model illustrates the complex interrelated structure o...

this paper talks about the measurement of efficiency and productivity of non-life insurance firms in india. this study is focused on twelve private non-life insurance firms and four public sector non-life insurance firms of india in the period 2008-09 to 2012-13. data envelopment analysis (dea) coupled with malmquist productivity index is used in measuring the efficiency as well as productivity...