FTA 국내보완대책의 일환으로 정부는 과수산업의 경쟁력 강화를 위해 2004년 과원규모화사업을 시작하였다. 본 연구는 포도와 배를 대상으로 과원규모화사업이 농가의 생산성 향상에 기여한 효과를 분석한다. 이를 위하여 사업 참여 농가와 미참여 농가를 구분하여 설문조사를 실시하고 각각에 대해 생산함수를 추정하였다. 콥더글러스 생산함수를 기초로 회귀분석과 확률프론티어분석을 이용하여 노동생산성, 총요소생산성, 기술효율성 등 주요 생산성 지표들을 추정하고 두 농가 그룹 간 비교·분석하였다. 분석 결과, 두 품목 모두 과원규모화사업을 통해 노동생산성과 기술효율성이 통계적으로 유의하게 개선된 것이 확인되었다. 특히, 포도의 경우는 과원규모화를 통해 토지생산성이 개선되었으며, 노동이 자본으로 일부 대체됨으로 써 생산성 향상에 기여한 것으로 나타났다. 향후 과원규모화사업의 효과를 극대화하기 위해서는 농가의 애로사항을 잘 경청하고 기술교육 및 사업홍보에 집중할 필요가 있다. 또한, 과원규모화사업의 확대와 함께 과원시설현대화사업이 추가적으로 지원된다면 향후 과수 농가의 경쟁력 향상에 크게 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

The objectives of this study are to analyze the productivity of prison labor and to derive some implications through comparisons with productivities of small and medium sized enterprise in free market economy in order to improve the quality of prison labor. Fundamentally, the aim of prison labor is the rehabilitation of prisoners, while that of private enterprise is maximizing the profits. Thus, there lie some limitations in comparing the productivity of these two. Goods and services produced by prisoners are in market competing with those by private sectors.However, according to this study, the productivity and the capital investment efficiency of prison labor are very low comparing to the private sectors. Therefore, in order for the prison labor to have a competitive edge, more effort will be required to improve its technology and productivity. Further study will also be needed to devise various programs for improvement of prison labor.

As aging society makes rapid progress, various social problems arise. The drop of productive labor and the increase of welfare cost can be taken as examples. From this point of view, a use of aged labor is a matter of great Important to national productivity improvement. But, the participation rate of the aged in economical activity amounts to 49.8 percent and their unemployment rate does 2.1 percent. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the deterioration of skill and the lowering of adaption to new working environments due to aging. Since the aging effect is closely related to worker's productivity, it should be properly measured and analyzed. The coordination tester is used to find out activity limitations. Experimental results show that the expert skill of the workers can be improved through the effective of their experience. Therefore we can say that some operation is not influenced by aging.

This study measures the relationship between labor productivity and national competitiveness. Through the shift- share analysis method, the paper has separated labor productivity into three factors: static shift effect, dynamic shift effect and endogeneous effect. Next, in combination with the Granger causality test, the paper examines the relationship between the factors constituting labor productivity and competitiveness during the period from 2005 to 2017. Research data is collected from General Statistics Office and annual global competitiveness reports. The results show that the interaction between labor productivity with global competitiveness index (GCI) in Vietnam has similar variation. Nevertheless, when separating labor productivity into three effects, this relationship shows more clearly that the impact of labor productivity on GCI scores is mainly caused by endogeneous effect, not by static shift effect or dynamic shift effect. Therefore, in order to improve its competitiveness, Vietnam should focus on a number of solutions: reforming the education system towards developing thinking capacity and creative capacity; fostering industrial manners to create dynamic and flexible workers; building the State with sufficient capacity to implement consistent and transparent policies; formulating policies to attract all economic sectors so that they actively participate in the field of human resource training for the country.

Purpose - Labor productivity is extremely important to the profitability and competitive advantage of organizations that provide services to customers, such as banks. This study investigates the factors driving labor productivity in Iran’s Melli Bank. Research design, data, methodology - Five managerial, psychosocial, cultural, and individual factors are identified and their relative importance for labor productivity prioritized using AHP. The required data are then collected through a questionnaire designed for a pairwise comparison of the driving factors of labor productivity and their subcategories. Results - The study outcomes reveal that the managerial and individual factors are the most important. Specifically, the most important factors in increasing labor productivity in the branches of Melli Bank are having a competent supervisor, promotion opportunities, fair working conditions, conscientiousness, the right tools, and a correspondence between skills and work. Conclusions - Implementing AHP using Expert Choice software revealed that, among the driving factors of labor productivity (i.e., managerial, psychosocial, cultural, environmental, and personal), managerial factors were considered the most important by the respondents.