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Health-Damaging Inputs, Workers Health Status and Productivity Measurement

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  • Konstantinos Chatzimichael
  • Margarita Genius

    (Department of Economics, University of Crete, Greece)

  • Vangelis Tzouvelekas

    (Department of Economics, University of Crete, Greece)

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  • Konstantinos Chatzimichael & Margarita Genius & Vangelis Tzouvelekas, 2017. "Health-Damaging Inputs, Workers Health Status and Productivity Measurement," Working Papers 1701, University of Crete, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    Health-damaging inputs; Workers' health index; TFP growth; Greenhouse farms;
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    JEL classification:

    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity

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