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Capital-labor substitution and economic efficiency

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In this article, the authors proposed a method to improve the quality of the service provided by the service provider by using the information of the user's interaction with the provider and the provider.
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Обсуждаются следующие темы: чистая теория производства, функциональное распределение дохода, технический прогресс, источники международных конкурентных преимуществ. Анализируются эластичность замещения между трудом и капиталом в обрабатывающей промышленности; производственные функции различного типа.

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Rail Efficiency: Cost Research and its Implications for Policy

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider alternative measures of efficiency, including technical efficiency and allocative efficiency, and examine applications of cost function analysis to two areas: rail privatisation in Britain and European rail reform.
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Human Capital, The Labour Market and Productivity Growth in Ireland

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that factors such as human capital accumulation are central to the growth process of an economy through raising productivity and increasing a country's ability to develop and facilitate technology.
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Introducing labour productivity changes into models used for economic impact analysis in tourism

TL;DR: In tourism management, traditional input-output models are often applied to calculate economic impacts, including employment impacts as mentioned in this paper, which imply that increases in output are translated into increases in employment.
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Distinctiveness of Asian driver and Western garment technologies in Uganda

David Botchie
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the distinctiveness and profitability of AD and Western hard and soft technologies using garment making machines in Uganda as a case study, and they built their research on five key economic theories: technical choice, appropriate technology, technical change, the rise of the Asian drivers, technology transfer and diffusion.
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Impacts of Traffic Congestion on Regional Production Efficiency: Cases of U.S. Urban Area

Junyang Yuan
TL;DR: Yuan et al. as discussed by the authors evaluated traffic congestion's impacts on regional economy besides of traditional method of calculating congestion costs in terms of traffic delay and wasted fuel which has encountered considerable critiques on debatable definition and measurement of both benchmark speed and value of time.
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Technical change and the aggregate production function

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to improve the performance of the system by using the information of the user's interaction with the system and the system itself, including the interaction between the two parties.
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Resource and output trends in the United States since 1870

TL;DR: In this paper, a very brief treatment of three questions relating to the history of our economic growth since the Civil War is given, namely: (1) How large has been the net increase of aggregate output per capita, and to what extent has this increase been obtained as a result of greater labor or capital input on the one hand and of a rise in productivity on the other? (2) Is there evidence of retardation, or conceivably acceleration, in the growth of per capita output? (3) Have there been fluctuations in the rate of growth of output, apart