The Exporter Productivity Premium along the Productivity Distribution: First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large ...

BACKGROUND Health-related productivity loss is an important, yet overlooked, component of the economic burden of disease in asthma patients of a working age. We aimed at evaluating the effect of comorbidities on productivity loss among adult asthma patients. METHODS In a random sample of employed adults with asthma, we measured comorbidities using a validated self-administered comorbidity que...

introduction: partnership working plays an important role in the health system, results in delivery of coordinated packages of services to patients, and reduces the impact of organizational fragmentation. method: the study aimed to determine the relationship between partnership working and productivity in the employees of a university of medical sciences in the south of iran. results: according...

Electricity generation in thermal power plants as the largest producer of electricity in Iran is associated with greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper, using the Malmquist-Luenberger method, green productivity, and efficiency changes are measured for 31 thermal power plants (including 12 steam power plants, 13 gas power plants, and six combined cycle power plants) during 2009-2016. The result...

Background: Due to the increasing health care costs, the issue of productivity in hospitals must be taken into great consideration in order to provide, preserve and promote public health services. Thus, increasing the level of productivity must become the main aim of any hospital. Objective of this study is to determine the total factor productivity and its components over the period under the ...

OBJECTIVE To assess work productivity and associated factors in patients with SpA. METHODS This cross-sectional postal survey included 1773 patients with SpA identified in a regional health care register. Items on presenteeism (reduced productivity at work, 0-100%, 0 = no reduction) were answered by 1447 individuals. Absenteeism was defined as register-based sick leave using data from a natio...

INTRODUCTION Psychological empowerment is really important and has remarkable effect on different organizational variables such as job satisfaction, organizational commitment, productivity, etc. So the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological empowerment and productivity of Librarians in Isfahan Medical University. METHODS This was correlational research. Da...

Objectives: To estimate the annual cost of productivity losses per person with RA by 0.5 increment in HAQscore, and the annual cost of productivity losses for Alberta province. Methods: Using data from the Alberta Biologics Registry a prospective observational cohort of consecutive patients receiving DMARD or anti-TNF therapies created in 2004, we compared the mean and median costs of productiv...

In this paper, we use a detailed plant-level dataset to study the effect of two reforms aimed at increasing product market competition in India – liberalization of foreign direct investment (FDI) and reduction in tariff rates. First, we examine the effect of the liberalization policies on mean plant-level productivity in the liberalized industries. We find a 23% increase in productivity level f...