Abstract This paper proposes a basic model with two types of capital: productive capital directly involved in the production process and devoted to monitoring workers. Surveillance intensifies workers’ job strain, while wage recognition encourages their engagement. Firms face double trade-off between capital, incentives labour costs. Under simple assumptions, up certain threshold, technological...

this study was conducted to determine a relationship between energy input and yield in greenhouse basil production in esfahan province, iran. data were collected from 26 greenhouse basil producers through a face-to-face questionnaire. the data collected belonged to the production period of 2009–2010 with the following results obtained. a total energy input of 236,057 mj ha-1 was estimated to be...

In this paper we examine the long term effects of socialization and segregation in schools, on labour market outcomes. We incorporate a model of “informational”peer influence by which beliefs of pupils are affected by exposure to other pupils’posterior beliefs. Specifically, we focus on the beliefs of private school graduates about the productivity of state school graduates. We incorporate this...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of “outsourcing” using establishment level data for UK manufacturing industries. We analyse an establishment’s decision to outsource and the subsequent effects of outsourcing on the establishment’s productivity. Our empirical results suggest that high wages are positively related to outsourcing, suggesting that the cost saving motive is important. We al...