Questions tagged [productivity]
A measure of efficiency in production for some given set of inputs
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Arellano and Bond (1991) GMM estimation in R by using plm package
I am a last-year student at university, currently working on my Bachelor's (so still learning R), and I really hope that you would suggest a potential solution (even if to use Python).
So, the main ...
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How can I add a multidimensional panel to estimate TFP (year, id, region) in R?
I'm not sure about adding fixed effects for the variables year,id,region (using the estprod library) as in this paper using LP stimator.
In the STATA forum ( #18 #...
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Unbalanced panel data in prodest package in R
I have a question regarding the usage of unbalanced panel data for TFP estimation by using the prodest package.
The dataset could be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/...
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All else being equal, What is the value of job creation?
Job creation value
Just to clarify, I have no experience, academic background or deep understanding of economics. Apologies for such a basic question but I couldn't find a real answer.
I hear a lot ...
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Is this a correct way of calculating productivity? And can the proposed data be (accurately) used for doing so?
I want to know if my thinking for calculating productivity [2019-USD/hour-worked] is correct.
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Take the GDP of a country and divide by the total amount of hours worked in that country -> ...
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Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) in Stata: Technical Efficiency Estimates
I am prepared to look quite the fool, but hopefully you can help me.
I am trying to perform Stochastic Frontier Analysis on a balanced panel dataset by estimating the following model:
I think the ...
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Prodest package in R for TFP estimation, gives different results
I have the following issue: each time I run the estimation of the TFP by using prodest package in R 4.0.3, I obtain different coefficients before the variables as well as omega variable is different:
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Asset bubbles and empirical findings for monetary stimulus' effect on productivity
It may be fairly empirical that leveraged investments can cause "asset bubbles" that often result in really highly priced assets (which I'll refer to as the ("leverage argument") --...
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Arellano and Bond (1991) or Blundell and Bond (1998) in R estimation
I have the following problem with the Arellano and Bond (1991) or Blundell and Bond (1998) estimators in R using the plm package. I receive the following problem when trying to run the needed ...
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Are prices part of total factor productivity?
I am trying to understand how production is related to income/profit and where do prices enter. Suppose there is a single firm with a Cobb-Douglas production technology:
$$Y=AK^{\alpha}L^{\beta}$$
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prodest package in R, TFP growth estimation
I have a question regarding the results and its transformations received from prodest package estimation. So, the dataset is available here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aedWYABus1fQjKWxkOmYOmxv-...
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TFP in R via estprod package
I want to calculate the TFP by using the estprod function (I use R 4.0.2). As far as I understood the only way to calculate the TFP is manual following this logic .
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Which diagnostic tests are suitable for Measuring Total Factor Productivity (TFP)?
I did the TFP estimation with Levinsohn Petrin (in R) but I have doubts about the diagnostic tests e.g. I know that the estimation of autocorrelation in residuals has to be done (it would be very ...
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TFP estimation in R by using prodest and estprod packages
I am writing my Bachelor Thesis and I really need help with the TFP estimation. so far I have a dataset with log values of Value added (va), Labour (l), Capital (k), and Materials (m). The initial ...
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Can demand side restrictions explain the productivity paradox (Solow paradox)?
Productivity paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox is the name for the slow productivity growth (i.e. slow GDP growth) of the developed economies despite the robotics, AI, ...
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Data on labour productivity in India
I am trying to find historical data at the district, or ideally at the city-level on labour productivity (by sector, with a special focus on agriculture) or perhaps data on a similar measure?
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Measurement for the downstream use of a commodity
I am looking to find a measurement that would tell me the size of the market of the downstream use of some particular commodity. For example, salt or wheat would be used by many companies downstream. ...
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Why labor-augmenting technological progress increases employment and wages?
My textbook says that advances in technology typically raise the marginal product of labor and shift the labor demand curve to the right and calls it labor-augmenting technological advances. The book ...
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CES aggregator for intermediates with heterogeneous productivity
I'm following Atkeson, Burstein (2019 JPE), and cannot understand the aggregation result.
There is measure $M(z)$ of firms with productivity $z$, with production function
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y(z) = z k(z)^\alpha l(z)^...
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Low oil price and impact
Today I read an artcicle about the falling oil price (maybe it'll go under 30$ per barel the next days). Why is this a bad news? Lower oil price can give an advantage for a higher productivity.
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How would increase labor productivity lead to improved living standards of people in an economy?
I would like to know more about the mechanisms through which higher labor productivity would translate into higher living standards for a population in a given economy.
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Measuring productivity with the Törnqvist index
I have a sample of companies, of which I want to calculate the productivity of each individual firm relative to a hypothetical firm in the industry.
Choosing the measurement method was not easy, but ...
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What is the average percent of value an employee makes which he gets on salary (called)?
I'm looking for any statistics showing the average percent of money employees get from the monetary value they create, primarily from the US or EU. Is there a term for this ratio?
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BreakEven/productivity/salary/employees
If employees’ salaries are increased by 20%, what is the increase in productivity required to break even?
Can someone assist me in solving this question?
Productivity = (output per period)/(number ...
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Are there any economic theories around the concept of companies focusing on that which is easier to calcuate?
A lot of the organisations I have worked for have focused on that which is easy to calculate.
For example, direct cost savings are often easy to calculate, but analysing the wider implications of a ...
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When does the law of diminishing returns apply?
Law of diminishing returns does not always apply:
The law of diminishing returns states that in all productive processes, adding more of one factor of production, while holding all others constant, ...
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Does recycling lead to fewer jobs?
Say I buy a glass bottle, I can either put it in the landfill or recycle it.
My understanding is, glass will breakdown into sand. (Not sure how well though, since we sometimes find glass from Roman ...
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Persistent changes in relative prices due to productivity differences
I read a couple of years ago that in the long run (in centuries) the relative price between, say, schooling and agriculture keeps increasing, since the latter sector gets more and more productive, ...
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Why is increased productivity infinitely good
From investopedia:
Supply rises with productivity, dropping real prices and increasing
real wages; it lifts people out of poverty and allows them to focus on
efforts beyond mere survival.
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Is the definition of Investment variable in Economics?
I studied that Investment is the expenditure incurred on the procurement of such goods that would help us in production of goods and services.
And mainly consists of Fixed and Inventory Investment
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Can we see the computer age in the productivity statistics?
Robert Solow famously said:
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics
This quote is often linked with the productivity paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Total factor productivity and revenue
On page 116 of The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective Robert Allen writes
"...the total factor productivity of enclosed farms was 18 per cent
higher than that of open fields. If ...
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Tax system is progressive or regressive
Let´s discuss a little!
When the direct effect of a tax or transfer policy (compared to what would happen in the absence of the policy) is a reduction in inequality, it is called progressive policy. ...
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How can the number of hairdressers in the UK be up 50% since 2010?
In this recent article, The Economist argues that one of the reasons behind the anaemic recent wage growth in Britain is that the recent job growth has been concentrated in lower-productivity jobs and ...
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What's a product that historically has always had the same value, and probably will in the future?
Money usually has inflation tied to it, but is there a product that has stayed around the same value world wide for a very long time, and probably will for a very long time as well (something like 100 ...
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Empirical explanation on divergence between productivity and wages since the 70s
There is a well know graph, that shows a tight link between productivity and wages, until the 70s, and a break of the link since:
There's a lot of possible explanations for this, I keep hearing more ...
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2 firms production decision for one agent
I'm trying to solve the optimal production $\{x,y\}$ for a risk neutral agent with weight $w$ in firm $X$ and weight $1-w$ in firm $Y$. Each firm has marginal cost $c^X$ and $c^Y$ respectively. The ...
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Does credit really help an economy?
I'm reading Ray Dalio's How the Economic Machine Works, and although I understand the role of credit in an economy, I don't understand whether credit actually adds any value to an economy.
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Are slacks the same as mix-inefficiency?
On the diagram below it is stated that A' has input slacks as it could reduce the amount of $x_2$ and still be on the frontier (by moving to C). However I recall mix-inefficiency having a similar ...
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Inclusion of firms on the efficient frontier of a Production Possibility Set
I'm working through Cooper's Data Envelopment Analysis, and they are going over Production Possibility Sets.
They present 9 firms, each with two inputs and one output:
Graphically it easy to see why ...
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GDP per Installed Computing Facilities
I would like to quantify the importance of computing power for economic aggregate output in an economy in a "simple" GDP-to-installed-CPU ratio.
The idea is to calculate a measure similar to GDP-to-...
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Productivity issue
Could someone help with the following?
Company produces products of daily demand. It employs workers In number of 12 people (HER) Wages of workers. The costs of hiring and firing are 25 per employee, ...
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What counts and doesn't count as rent seeking?
Rent seeking is often associated with lobbying.
Investopedia's article on rent seeking states that rent seeking is gaining wealth without "creating" wealth. Is this the only commonly used definition?
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Productivity and wages in a task-based model
In a task-based model like the one developed in Acemoglu&Autor 2011 with two types of worker, can the low type have a higher wage with respect to the high type?
More specifically: if the ...
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How to improve the underperforming construction productivity by correcting its market failures?
Globally, labor-productivity growth in construction has averaged only 1 percent a year over the past two decades, compared with growth of 2.8 percent for the total world economy and 3.6 percent in the ...
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TFP estimation as residual and normality of errors
Economists normally calculate TFP as the residual of a regression on output against K, L, and maybe other variables.
However, a well behaved regression is expected residuals to be normal (https://en....
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When does a high markup mean high productivity? Never?
I was reading this article in VoxEU, where the authors (one is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University) make the case that an increasing average mark-up has accounted for much of the late ...
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Why are imported Chinese products in India cheaper than those locally produced?
Why an imported Chinese product in India is cheaper compared to a locally manufactured item?
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Why are readily available productivity data relative, not absolute?
I've been trying to do some cursory research on labor productivity. In the process, I've noticed that the readily available data in the US, as accessed through either BLS or FRED (yes, I know it's the ...
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Labour Saving vs. Labour Augmenting - what is the difference?
It seems reasonable to say that technology generally increases output per unit of labour. Therefore in any factory which has installed new technology one can reasonably expect that for the same ...
