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"Using scanner level data

 we measure high frequency worker-level productivity of checkers for a large grocery chain

 Because of the firm's scheduling policy

 the timing of within-day changes in personnel

 is unsystematic

 a feature for which we find consistent support

in the data

 We find strong evidence of positive 

productivity 

spillovers

 from the introduction of highly productive personnel 

into a shift. 

A 10% increase 

in average co-worker permanent productivity 

is associated 

with 1.7% increase in a worker's effort"

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on another front:



"Shifts in domestic attitudes

 and world politics 

have combined to create 

one of the least hospitable environments 

for trade liberalization

 in recent memory. The most dramatic shift in opinion

 came from Americans 

making more than $100,000 a year.

 According to the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA),

 support in that income group

 for promoting trade 

dropped to 28 percent in 2004 from 57 percent 

in 1999.

 A September 2005 German Marshall Fund (GMFUS) 

survey revealed that 57 percent believe 

that freer trade destroys more American jobs 

than it creates,

 and 58 percent 

of Americans 

would favor raising tariffs 

for imported goods 

if it meant protecting jobs 

-- a higher number

 than in Germany, France, 

or Great Britain

Healthy majorities believe that trade primarily benefits

 multinational corporations 

at the expense of small businesses."

Posted by gale at September 19, 2006 02:13 AM

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