Productivity growth in natural resource industries and the environment: an application to the Korean tuna purse-seine fleet in the Pacific Ocean

Measures of multifactor productivity growth in natural resource industries are misleading without accounting for the effects on the environment. This paper introduces environmental effects into an output-oriented Malmquist index of multifactor productivity growth in order to evaluate growth in productivity and technical efficiency for Korean purse seine vessels fishing for tuna in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Squires, Dale ; Reid, Christopher ; Jeon, Yongil
Published in:	International Economic Journal. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1016-8737. - Vol. 22.2008, 1, p. 81-93
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis Journals
Subject:	productivity \| technical change \| environment \| natural resources \| Malmquist index \| Pacific tuna fisheries \| Korea

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