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Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-Income Country Open
We study the effects of a positive export shock on labor allocation between the informal, microenterprise sector and the formal firm sector in a low-income country. The United States-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement led to large reduction…
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Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa Open
Manufacturing has made an important contribution to raising living standards in many parts of the world. Concerns about premature deindustrialization have made some observers skeptical about the potential for manufacturing to play this rol…
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New evidence regarding the effects of contract farming on agricultural labor use Open
Contractual agreements between smallholder farmers and agribusiness companies have gained in importance in many developing countries. While productivity and income effects of contracting in the small farm sector were analyzed in many previ…
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Balancing the trade-offs between land productivity, labor productivity and labor intensity Open
Agricultural intensification, through increased yields, and raising incomes, through enhanced labor productivity, are two dimensions prioritized for sustainable agricultural development. Prioritizing these two outcomes leaves labor intensi…
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Diamonds, Rebel’s and Farmer’s Best Friend: Impact of Variation in the Price of a Lootable, Labor-intensive Natural Resource on the Intensity of Violent Conflict Open
This article investigates the impact of the world price of a “lootable,” labor-intensive natural resource on intensity of violent conflict. Results suggest that a price increase can have opposite effects at different geographical levels of…
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An explanation of labor migration and grain output growth: Findings of a case study in eastern Tibetan Plateau Open
Although there has been rapid rural-urban migration in rural China since the 1980s, the total grain production of China saw a continuous increase. As of today, the relationship between labor migration and grain output growth remains partia…
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Model of Predictive Maintenance of Machines and Equipment Open
This paper presents selected possibilities for mathematical models in predictive maintenance of equipment. This model includes automatic classification of machines by labor intensity, determination of labor intensity standards, and drawing…
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SIZE VS EFFECTIVENESS OF AGRICULTURAL FARMS Open
The size of farms is one of the most important factors affecting their efficiency. The size of farms affects the ability to invest and introduce technical progress, achieve economies of scale, both internal and external, as well as achievi…
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The Quantitative Analysis of Workers’ Stress Due to Working Environment in the Production System of the Automobile Part Manufacturing Industry Open
Production now requires the management of production processes and operations on the basis of customers’ demand to ensure the best combination of technology and humans in the system. The role of the humans in the production process is very…
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IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT ON FIRM’S PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY FACTOR IN MANUFACTURING Open
The goal of this paper is to investigate the impact of technology investments on production efficiency in manufacturing companies and how different these relationships are for low-technology and high-technology companies. The empirical par…
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What Explains the Decline of the U.S. Labor Share of Income? An Analysis of State and Industry Level Data Open
The U.S. labor share of income has been on a secular downward trajectory since the beginning of the new millennium. Using data that are disaggregated across both state and industry, we show the decline in the labor share is broad-based but…
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Digital technology, the industrial internet, and cost stickiness Open
The deep integration of digital technology with the real economy has reconstructed production systems. We explore the impact of digital technology on the resource allocation behavior and efficiency of manufacturing enterprises. Using a sam…
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Mechanized Technology Research and Equipment Application of Banana Post-Harvesting: A Review Open
In all operations of banana post-harvesting, picking and transportation are the operations with the highest labor intensity and the highest production costs. The operation of banana de-handing is still in the traditional stage by manual cu…
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Review on Adoption of Improved Agricultural Technologies in Ethiopia Open
The objective of this review was to assess the factors affecting adoption and intensity of agricultural new technologies. The adoptions of agricultural technologies were highly influenced by socio-economic factors, institutional, location …
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Evolution of a Development Model for Fruit Industry Against Background of Rising Labor Cost: Intensive or Extensive Adjustment? Open
As an important starting point for optimizing the structure of agricultural products and implementing green production methods, the direction of orchard management development is directly related to the success of “supply side” reform in t…
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TO THE HISTORY OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY DEVELOPMENT Open
Technological and technical modernization of separate elements of seeding machinery having a decisive influence on quality of cultivated smallseed crops, including flax, makes it possible to find directions to study a complex multilevel sy…
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THE SEVERITY AND INTENSITY OF THE LABOR PROCESS OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL WORKERS IN THE MODERNIZATION OF HEALTH CARE Open
Обоснование.Профессиональная деятельность работников экстренных служб обладает рядом особенностей, которые могут оказывать неблагоприятное влияние на состояние здоровье трудящихся.Современные условия диктуют необходимость особого внимания …
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Evolution of a Development Model for Fruit Industry against Background of an Aging Population: Intensive or Extensive Adjustment? Open
As an important starting point for optimizing the structure of agricultural products and implementing green production methods, the direction of orchard management development is directly related to the success of “supply side” reform in t…
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Robots and labor regulation: a cross-country/cross-industry analysis Open
This work discusses and empirically investigates the relationship between labor regulation and robotization. In particular, the empirical analysis focuses on the relationship between the discipline of workers' dismissal and the adoption of…
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Design of a new fruit tree bagging machine Open
Fruit tree bagging technology is a fruit protection technology that can reduce the amount of pesticides and reduce pests and diseases. However, the current fruit tree bagging is generally done manually, with low production efficiency, high…
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Employment Intensity of Economic Growth: Evidence from Nepal Open
Economic growth and employment are taken as the top twin objectives of macroeconomic policy agenda in both developed and developing countries. Economic growth brings changes in employment growth. In general, during time of the growth of gr…
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Impact of growing costs on the profitability of crop production in Poland in the mid-term perspective Open
Main aim of this paper was to demonstrate the impact of cultivation intensity on economic of selected activities of crop production in Poland. The projection of income of these activities in mid-term perspective, i.e. in 2016, has also bee…
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Heterogeneous effect of exchange rates on firms’ exports: Role of labor intensity Open
Using an extensive firm-level database that combines balance sheet information, social security registry and customs data, we examine whether the relationship between the exchange rate and exports change with the degree of labor-intensity …
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Touch and Massage on Labor Pain Intensity During First Stage of Active Phase Open
Introduction: Labor pain is a challenging issue for nurses designing intervention protocols. Touch and massage therapy is one of non-pharmacology approaches that they could do during labor process. The study was conducted to assess the eff…
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Possibilities for Intensifying Construction Work’s Dynamic on Objects of the Annual Production Program by Winter Concreting Technology Open
The authors make decomposition of construction and installation works during the implementation of large investment and construction projects on the territory of mega-cities from monolithic reinforced concrete. Particular attention is focu…
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Evaluation of machining content and labor intensity of manufacturing products of new nomenclature when determining the cost of fulfilling an order at highly specialized machine-building enterprises Open
The problem of operational calculation of machining content and labor intensity of manufacturing parts of a new nomenclature, mainly processed by cutting, at highly specialized machine-building enterprises when calculating the technical an…
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Employment intensity and Sectoral Output Growth: A Comparative Analysis of Egyptian and Jordanian economies Open
The purpose of this article is to assess the relationship between employment intensity and sectoral output growth, to examine whether economic growth was jobless or has created more jobs. Using panel data for 10 sectors over the period 198…
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Control of Manufacturing Aircraft Gas-turbine Engines Labor Intensity at the Early Stages of Design Open
This paper is devoted to the problem of planning and control of the labor intensity of manufacturing aircraft gas-turbine engines (GTE) at the early stages of design. The paper deals with an original approach to the definition of the compl…
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Is China’s Textile Industry Still a Labour-Intensive Industry? Open
Is China’s textile industry (CTI) still a laboor-intensive one? To answer this question, this study measures the capital-labour intensity and technology intensity of CTI and its sub-sectors during 2006-2018, then applies factor intensity c…
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Firm-Level Regulatory Intensity and Labor Investment Efficiency Open
We examine the impact of firm-level regulatory intensity on corporate labor investment efficiency in U.S. firms using a sample from 1995 to 2019. We find that labor investment inefficiency decreases with regulatory intensity, providing evi…