13 Costs were expressed in 2019 US dollars, updated for inflation from the medical service date to July 2019 using the Consumer Price Index.14 Statistical Analysis Propensity score matching was performed based on individual characteristics during the preoutcome period of January 1, 2016, through ...
This general idea is elaborated in the Agency Theory, resulting in the firm as a multitude of complex relationships (contracts) between the legal fiction (the firm) and the owners of labor, material, and capital input (Jensen and Meckling, 1976). The conflicting interests among the stakeholders...
The tourist areas are safe—and patrolled by police on bicycles—but the neighboring slums are still no-go zones. On the other side of the country, in the western region of Chiriquí, lies the world-renowned Boquete. This mountain town north of David, the provincial capital, has been tou...
It may be convenient for everything to just work out-of-the-box when using the technology stack of a single vendor, but there is a cost (as in time and labor) associated in migrating or decoupling infrastructure to meet future business objectives when current solutions are not adequate....
These efforts made Turkey the third-highest ranking innovation economy among North African and West Asian countries in the Global Innovation Index, 2021. It ranks high in attributes like regional diversification, research talent in business, labor productivity growth, and many more. As a result, Tur...
Labor productivity refers to the overall amount of output, measured in terms of revenues that are produced per unit of dollar cost of labor, number of employees and other such metrics. The framework presented here is a consequence of the global decline or virtual stagnation in population in indu...
determine suspicious or potentially dangerous target behavior, as well as communication of alerts to users who require that information. Furthermore, practical solutions must also minimize operator interaction due to the fact that system cost includes the cost of human labor needed to operate the ...
In general, the objective of residential energy-efficiency tax credits is to encourage individuals to increase residential energy-efficiency investments and invest in properties that generate renewable energy. This research analyses eight of the available tax credit categories for four climatic zones and ...
and labor costs are expressed as a percentage of initial capital investments32. The AEC system is currently the most mature and durable among these three options. Chinese manufacturers consider $200 k W−1a realistic estimate for the contemporary cost of AEC, up to 80% cheaper than simila...
Institute of international trade and economics of the University of foreign trade and economics, pointed out that "the enterprises engaged in foreign trade processing have gradually lost their channels and market information, and have been in the low end of the world division of labor for a long...