Agricultural laborers frequently work for piece rate wages – where they are paid per unit of output rather than per unit of time – based on the assumption that these wages incentivize productivity. In this paper, I exploit quasi-experimental variation to estimate the elasticity of labor productivity with respect to piece rate wages by analyzing a high-frequency panel of over 2,000 blueberry pic...

The size of software project teams has been considered to be a driver of project productivity. Although there is a large literature on this, new publicly available software repositories allow us to empirically perform further research. In this paper we analyse the relationships between productivity, team size and other project variables using the International Software Benchmarking Standards Gr...

The problem of assessing the impact of firm entry and exit on aggregate productivity growth is addressed. The proposed method overcomes some problems with currently proposed methods. The paper also addresses some of the problems involved in aggregating outputs and inputs when firms enter and exit so that the one output and one input aggregate productivity decompositions can be applied. It turns...

PH (Puissance de Hydrogen) is an essential ingredient of soil that effects on fertility and productivity of dirt. Barddhaman district is a part of Lower Gangetic Plain fully covered by alluvial soil and popularly known as 'rice bowl of West Bengal' owing to its lofty production. This data article provides a block level data on soil PH that is essential for further investigation of the relations...

Morphological productivity is one of the key issues in the study of derivational morphology. This paper makes a survey of the quantitative measurements of morphological productivity so far proposed by different scholars, and tentatively attempts to point out the pros and cons and also feasibility of each measurement, with a view to provide some assistance for the future researcher who is going ...

Productivity models are important decision support tools for harvesting operations. They should be derived with the least possible effort but with the highest possible precision. Models based on production monitoring or time studies are time consuming in their derivation. No models are available for new machine developments although it is particularly important to estimate productivity under gi...

Over the past decade, the United States economy has experienced strong economic growth due in large part to a resurgence in productivity growth. During the period from 1996 to 2006, average labor productivity grew 2.8 percent annually as compared to 1.4 percent from 1974 to 1995. Researchers have devoted considerable effort to understanding the source of this surge in productivity, focusing esp...

nowadays, organizations are trying to maximize productivity by groups, but the results are not always completely satisfactory thereby causing some problems for organizations such as social loafing. social loafing reduces motivation and effort in team work compared to individual work. this study intends to achieve the necessary mechanisms to reduce social loafing, and reviews the effect of perce...

PURPOSE To associate a monetary value with the productivity of a radiologist assistant (RA) student during the educational process, as a predictor of the potential impact on radiology practices acting as preceptors to RA students. METHODS Eight RA students' productivity was analyzed using preexisting data composed of a list of examinations completed as part of the educational process. The Ins...

The goal of programming support systems is to make it possible for application developers to produce software faster, without any degradation in software quality. However, it is essential that this goal must not be achieved at the cost of performance: programs written in a high-level language and intended to solve large problems on highly parallel machines must not be egregiously less efficient...