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  • Trade and productivity effects on firm behavior : the case of Korean manufacturing

    Creator:
    Kim, Sooil
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    This dissertation’s three essays investigate trade and productivity effects on firm behavior based on new heterogeneous-firms trade models in the case of Korea. In the first essay, firms’ decision to export in the case of Korean manufacturing industries is examined, where the change in firms’ productivity before and after exports...
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    markets. In industries where Korea has a comparative advantage, high productivity of firms appears to

  • Three essays on international trade and regional productivity

    Creator:
    Moon, Hanpil
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    A firm's productivity is composed of two parts: pure technical change and location-specific (agglomeration) externalities. Regional productivity is thus an aggregation of productivity of firms producing similar goods and located in a given region. International trade can affect both components of regional productivity. First, trade openness in a closed economy...
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    affects regional productivity using county-level data from Korea and firm-level data from India

  • Prevailing opinions about productivity performance and improvement

    Creator:
    Anaya-Sánchez, Carlos G.
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    The intent of this study was to survey opinions of producine managers and industrial engineers concerning several aspects of productivity. The survey was conducted by means of a questionnaire. The number of questionnaires administered was 540. Useful responses were 145 (27%). In addition to English, there were versions of the...
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    Industrial Engineering presented on September 2v, 1979 Title: PREVAILING OPINIONS ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY

  • The development and implementation of team productivity training

    Creator:
    Hanlen, Deborah G.
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    A unique team productivity raining program was developed and implemented for Electro-Scientific Industries, Inc. (ESI). This program was designed to train shop floor workers in teamwork skills and traditional industrial engineering techniques. In this way, problem-solving tools are available to the hourly manufacturing worker for use in improving communications, quality,...
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    The development and implementation of team productivity

  • Intrafirm and interfirm productivity comparisons

    Creator:
    Burnett, Daniel Rodger
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    Interfirm comparisons are used internationally to provide productivity measurement systems. These systems indicate changes in productivity. The development of interfirm comparisons in Britain, Australia, and Canada is discussed. Interfirm comparisons have also been conducted in the United States under the auspices of various trade associations. However, in the United States...
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    Industrial Engineering presented on June 9, 1981 Title: Intrafirm and Interfirm Productivity Comparisons

  • Essays in efficiency and productivity analysis of economic systems

    Creator:
    Zelenyuk, Valentin
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    In this work I integrate some of my recent research developments in the theory and practice of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis of Economic Systems. In particular, I present some new theoretical relationships between various measures of efficiency and productivity, propose new solutions to some aggregation problems in efficiency analysis and...
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    ) EMPIRICAL APPLICATION OF EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS TO INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION: ESSAY 8: CAUSES

  • Multi-product firms' productivity and export behavior

    Creator:
    Choi, Jangho
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    The objective of this dissertation is to examine multi-product firms' productivity and export behavior. More specifically, this dissertation estimates productivity of firms that produce and sell multiple products, and the role of productivity in such firms' export behavior. In doing so, this dissertation develops a firm-level gravity approach to test...
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    Multi-Product Firms' Productivity and Export Behavior

  • Three essays on firm heterogeneity and regional development

    Creator:
    Saito, Hisamitsu
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    The objective of this dissertation is to theoretically and empirically examine the role of firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity and skill-intensity in the agglomeration process and the effect of agglomeration on regional economic development. In the first essay, I analyze the effect of trade liberalization on agglomeration of high-...
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    productivity include specializing in targeted industry, diversifying regional industrial structure, enlarging

  • Productivity interfirm comparison : methodologies with a special application to the Northwest food processors

    Creator:
    Park, Tongkyu
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    Based on the premise that interfirm comparison can be an effective productivity improvement tool, productivity interfirm comparison (PIC) methods are examined in this research. The first part is an extensive literature review regarding the conventional interfirm comparison (IFC) scheme accepted widely in many countries outside the United States. Then, the...
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    industrial nations. Nations with low productivity growth are likely to have high inflation, persistent

  • The development of productivity interfirm comparison procedures for the cement industry of Saudi Arabia

    Creator:
    Al-Agha, Osama K.
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    Productivity Interfirm Comparison (PIC) is a simple method used to improve productivity at the firm level, where a number of firms operate in the same product line so that performance information on the firms can be compiled and compared. This results in identifying potential areas for improvement or exploitation. The...
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    The development of productivity interfirm comparison