Business Productivity and Area Productivity in Rural England

Decoding Productivity: Business Cycle Properties of Labor Productivity Growth

Among the variables most often tracked by economic analysts and policymakers, the rate of growth of labor productivity is one of the most volatile and hardest to interpret, at least in the short run. Yet, it is often used to explain movements in inflation and output under the assumption that there are stable relationships between productivity growth and those variables. This paper uses frequenc...

Agricultural Productivity and Rural Incomes in England and the Yangtze Delta

Resource Reallocation , Productivity Dynamics , and Business Cycles

Title of Dissertation / Thesis: RESOURCE REALLOCATION, PRODUCTIVITY DYNAMICS, AND BUSINESS CYCLES Min Ouyang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation / Thesis Directed By: Professor John Shea, Department of Economics Professor John Rust, Department of Economics This dissertation explores the interactions between resource reallocation, productivity dynamics and business cycles. A theory that com...

ERP Investment: Business Impact and Productivity Measures

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system integrates key business and management processes within and beyond a firm’s boundary. While the business value of ERP implementations have been extensively debated in IT trade periodicals in the form of qualitative discussion or detailed case studies, there is little large sample statistical evidence on who adopts ERP and whether the benefits o...

Health and productivity as a business strategy.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to assess the magnitude of health-related lost productivity relative to medical and pharmacy costs for four employers and assess the business implications of a "full-cost" approach to managing health. METHODS A database was developed by integrating medical and pharmacy claims data with employee self-report productivity and health information collected ...