The paper describes the development of energyintensity at a detailed sectoral level for 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997 (distinguishing 13 sectors). The analysis is based on a database that merges energy data from IEA Energy Balances, economic data from the OECD International Sectoral Database and constructed energy prices, using IEA data. We document a number of stylised facts focus...

BACKGROUND Researchers and policy makers have determined that accounting for productivity costs, or "indirect costs," may be as important as including direct medical expenditures when evaluating the societal value of health interventions. These costs are also important when estimating the global burden of disease. The estimation of indirect costs is commonly done on a country-specific basis. Ho...

Understanding the dynamics of productivity shocks is instrumental if we are to identify the sources of economic growth. This paper, investigates dynamic effects of positives productivity shocks to agricultural subsectors during the period from 1991-2015, by disaggregating agricultural sector in Iran into four key subsectors (crops, livestock, fishing and forestry) through an estimated DSGE mode...

In this paper, we measure productivity growth of the information technology (IT) industries in fourteen OECD countries over the thirteen-year period of 1978 through 1990. The IT industries are the providers of IT capital goods, and this macro-level analysis seeks to find out how efficiently IT capital goods are produced. The basic unit of analysis employed is the Malmquist Total Factor Producti...

Does productivity growth increase or reduce unemployment? Theoretical and empirical analyses have generally provided mixed results. In this paper we analyze the empirical relationship between productivity and unemployment over different time frames using wavelet analysis. The scale-by-scale results from panel data and nonparametric regressions methods indicate that productivity-unemployment rel...

the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between productivity and organizational intelligence in physical education offices of east azerbaijan province. the present research was a descriptive correlational survey. the statistical population consisted of managers in physical education offices and the statistical sample consisted of 34 members of this population. the data were co...

improving water productivity in food production has been a basic global issue, especially incountries with limited water resources like iran. due to quantitative and qualitative limitationsof water, measurement and analysis of agricultural water productivity indicators in irandeserve special attention. accordingly, in the present study, the physical and economicalproductivity of crops in bahar ...

The fields of engineering and management associate efficiency with how well a relevant action is performed, i.e. ‘‘doing things right’’, and effectiveness with selecting the best action, i.e. ‘‘doing the right thing’’. Thus, a firm is effective if identifies appropriate strategic goals, and efficient if it achieves them with minimal resources. This chapter focuses on operational efficiency, or ...

Extensive government control over industrial and service sectors show it could not overcome the increasing misuse of public resources, raisins debts, lack of improvement in operation efficiency and mismanagement. Numerous productivity programs could be a key to improve performances. In present article a case of productivity program in one of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) namely Isfahan Steel M...