Labour-Use Efficiency in Swedish Social Insurance Offices.
This paper considers the estimation of frontier production functions in panel data models. It proposes a multi-stage method to obtain estimates of (1) the parameters of a flexible input requirement function and (2) technical inefficiency decomposed into time-invariant (firm-specific), time-varying, and the residual components. The proposed method is used to analyze labor-use efficiency of Swedish local social insurance offices on the basis of a large panel of observations during the time period 1974-84. Empirical results show: (1) substantial variations in labor-use efficiency among these offices, with the mean efficiencies declining over time; (2) presence of economies of scale, thereby meaning that most of the offices were of suboptimal size. Copyright 1995 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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1995
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Authors: | Kumbhakar, Subal C ; Hjalmarsson, Lennart |
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Journal of Applied Econometrics. - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.. - Vol. 10.1995, 1, p. 33-47
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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