New developments in productivity analysis / / edited by Charles R. Hulten, Edwin R. Dean, Michael J. Harper

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955293903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2001
• ISBN: 9786611125752; 9781281125750; 128112575X; 9780226360645; 0226360644
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (648 p.)
• Collana: NBER studies in income and wealth ; ; v. 63
• Altri autori (Persone): HultenCharles R; DeanEdwin; HarperMichael J
• Disciplina: 338/.06
• Soggetti: Industrial productivity; Economic development
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "National Bureau of Economic Research, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth"--P. facing t.p.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Prefatory Note -- Introduction -- 1. Total Factor Productivity: A Short Biography -- 2. The BLS Productivity Measurement Program -- 3. Which (Old) Ideas on Productivity Measurement Are Ready to Use? -- 4. Dynamic Factor Demand Models and Productivity Analysis -- 5. After "Technical Progress and the Aggregate Production Function" -- 6. Accounting for Growth -- 7. Why Is Productivity Procyclical? Why Do We Care? -- 8. Aggregate Productivity Growth: Lessons from Microeconomic Evidence -- 9. Sources of Productivity Growth in the American Coal Industry: 1972-95 -- 10. Service Sector Productivity Comparisons: Lessons for Measurement -- 11. Different Approaches to International Comparison of Total Factor Productivity -- 12. Whatever Happened to Productivity Growth? -- 13. Productivity of the U.S. Agricultural Sector: The Case of Undesirable Outputs -- 14. Total Resource Productivity: Accounting for Changing Environmental Quality -- 15. A Perspective on What We Know ; About the Sources of Productivity Growth -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The productivity slowdown of the 1970's and 1980's and the resumption of productivity growth in the 1990's have provoked controversy among policymakers and researchers. Economists have been forced to reexamine fundamental questions of measurement technique. Some researchers argue that econometric approaches to productivity measurement usefully address shortcomings of the dominant index number techniques while others maintain that current productivity statistics underreport damage to the environment. In this book, the contributors propose innovative approaches to these issues. The result is a state-of-the-art exposition of contemporary productivity analysis. Charles R. Hulten is professor of economics at the University of Maryland. He has been a senior research associate at the Urban Institute and is chair of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Michael Harper is chief of the Division of Productivity Research at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Edwin R. Dean, formerly associate commissioner for Productivity and Technology at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is adjunct professor of economics at The George Washington University.

Investigating Understanding : Annotating Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 43” / Leonie Kirchhoff

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910878797703321
• Autore: Kirchhoff Leonie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Paderborn, : Brill | Schöningh, 2024
• ISBN: 9783657795079; 9783506795076
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 pages)
• Collana: Beiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur ; 43
• Disciplina: 821.3
• Soggetti: Explanatory Annotations; Erläuternde Anmerkungen; Cognitive Studies; Kognitive Studien; Educational Studies; Pädagogische Studien; Literary Scholarship; Literaturwissenschaft; Hermeneutic Processes; Hermeneutische Prozesse; Literary Analysis; Literarische Analyse; Educational Methodologies; Pädagogische Methodologien; Poetry; Poesie; Interdisciplinary Research; Interdisziplinäre Forschung
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Understanding Literary Texts - Annotations and their Annotators -- 1.2 Investigating 'Understanding' ; -- 1.3 Poetry as an Object of Research - Notoriously Difficult or Unique Research Opportunity -- Chapter 2. Students' Explanatory Annotations as a Methodological Tool -- 2.1 A Brief Etymological Excursus -- 2.2 When most I understand, then do I best explain? - Preliminary Considerations -- 2.3 The Student Annotations -- 2.4 An Appropriate Annotation - Defining Criteria for the Evaluation -- Chapter 3. Cognitive Studies - Reading Comprehension Models and Annotations -- 3.1 Reading Comprehension Models -- 3.2 Some Conclusions -- Chapter 4. Educational Studies - Reading Competence Models and Annotations -- 4.1 Reading Competence Models -- 4.2 Discussion of Observations - Reading Competence and/or Literary Competence? -- Chapter 5. Investigating Literary Competence -- 5.1 Reading Competence or Literary Competence - A Conceptual Problem -- 5.2 Reading and Understanding SON43 as a Fictional Text -- 5.3 Hermeneutic Processes in Annotation Versions -- 5.4 Metacognitive Strategies -- 5.5 Understanding "Sonnet 43" - Literary Competence -- Chapter 6. Conclusion -- 6.1 Understanding Poetry - Results, Reflections and Research Incentives -- 6.2 Understanding (in) Literature -- Appendix -- Appendix A: Example Poems -- Appendix B: Roick et al. "Literarische Textverstehenskompetenz" - Text Passage and Tasks (p. 72-4) -- Appendix C: External Appendix - The Student Annotations -- Works Cited -- Oxford English Dictionary Entries.
• Sommario/riassunto: With a fresh and innovative perspective, Leonie Kirchhoff introduces an interdisciplinary xamination of literary understanding, drawing upon cognitive, educational, and literary studies. At the heart of the study is a fascinating exploration of explanatory annotations written by university students, providing valuable insights into the complexities of understanding poetry in general and the timeless verses of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 43” in particular. The students’ annotations serve as a distinctive methodological tool, en abling the author to critically evaluate the existing research on understanding as presented by the three fields of study. Through this rigorous exploration, the author maps and reflects on long-term hermeneutic processes. This scholarly work provides a unique contribution to the field and offers an essential resource for academics, researchers, and scholars seeking a deeper understanding of the intricate processes involved in literary understanding.