Investigation of factors affecting total and partial productivity with applying these factors for reforming producers' economical/ technical management may provide a proper base for enhancing productivity and profitability as well, and then leading a more sustainable situation for Pistachio orchards in the future. In this paper with respect to scattering type of statistical population, a multi ...

The strong pace of improvement in coal industry labor productivity has been a major reason for the decline in coal minemouth prices that has taken place since 1979. The Annual Energy Outlook 2000 (AEO2000) forecast projects that labor productivity on a national basis will improve on average at a rate of 2.3 percent per year between 1998 and 2020, declining from an annual rate of 6.1 percent ach...

T he U.S. economy has been enjoying substantially faster productivity growth for the past eight years than it did over the preceding two decades. From 1995 to 2003, labor productivity rose at an average annual rate of about 3 percent, up from an average annual rate of around 1.5 percent between 1973 and 1995. In both 2002 and 2003, output per hour increased more than 4 percent. The significance...

In this paper the Malmquist index of total factor productivity is applied to a sample of 87 countries observed over the period 1960-90. This index and the method needed to quantify it, the data envelopment analysis, has substantial advantages as compared to traditional growth accounting. Two of these advantages are that it does not rely on questionable equilibrium assumptions to merge multiple ...

Publication in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a flagship indicator of scientific prestige, shows dramatic gender disparities. A bibliometric analysis included yoked-control authors matched for Ph.D. prestige and cohort. Though women publish less, at slower annual rates, they are more cited in handbooks and textbooks per JPSP-article-published. No gender differences emerged on...

My comments may be summarised by an inversion of Solow’s famous comment that the information technology productivity miracle can be seen everywhere but in the productivity statistics. By contrast, the Australian productivity miracle can be seen only in the productivity statistics. The lesson of everyday life is that people are running harder to stay in the same place. More formally, an increase...

Is there a Case for Exchange Rate Induced Productivity Changes?