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Textile manufacturing in eight developing countries:How far does the business environment explain firms' productive inefficiency?
Chaffai, Mohamed; Kinda, Tidiane; Plane, Patrick - HAL - 2011
-based simulations are then proposed in order to assess productivity gains which would occur if firms had the opportunity to evolve in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794824
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Total Factor Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Indian Manufacturing: The Role of Infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology
Mitra, Arup; Sharma, Chandan; Veganzones, Marie-Ange - HAL - 2011
that core infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) matter for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644165
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Is participatory social learning a performance driver for Chinese smallholder farmers?
GUO, Huanxiu; Marchand, Sébastien - HAL - 2013
This paper aims to test the effect of smallholder farmers' participatory social learning on their gain of performance in a village of southwest China. By exploring a panel structure survey data collected in the village, we identify the social learning effect using a Spatial Autoregressive (SAR)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821192
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Health Insurance Reform and Efficiency of Township Hospitals in Rural China: An Analysis from Survey Data
Audibert, Martine; Huang, Xiao Xian; Mathonnat, Jacky; … - HAL - 2012
In the rural health-care organization of China, township hospitals ensure the delivery of basic medical services. Particularly damaged by the economic reforms implemented from 1975 to the end of the 1990s, township hospitals efficiency is questioned, mainly with the implementation since 2003 of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001268
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Identification of Segments of French Urban Public Transport with a Latent Class Frontier Model
Roy, William; Barros, Carlos - HAL - 2007
This paper analyses technical efficiency of French urban public transport from 1995 to 2002 with unbalanced panel data. The latent class frontier model is used allowing the identification of different segments in the production frontier. We find that there are three statistically significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789079
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Explaining Productivity Differentials in Eastern European Agriculture: Efficiency or Class Structure ?
Arcand, Jean-Louis; Borodak, Daniela - HAL - 2011
productivity differentials in Moldovan agriculture. We compute non-parametric measures of technical efficiency for a sample of … productivity observed in our sample, while class membership is slightly more successful. Our empirical model of class structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835398
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How Do Spouses Share their Full Income ? Identification of the Sharing Rule Using Self-Reported Income
Kalugina, Ekaterina; Radtchenko, Natalia; Sofer, Catherine - HAL - 2006
The paper applies the collective model to the analysis of intra-household inequality using self-reported income scales. Starting from a collective model including household production, our key assumption is that the income level that household members report corresponds to their true income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750944
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Energy institutional and organisational changes in EU and Russia: Revisiting gas relations
Boussena, Sadek; Locatelli, Catherine - HAL - 2013
This article tries to shed light on why gas relations between the EU and Russia, which were previously stable, have … structuring this sector. The model of vertically unbundled network industries promoted by the EU is no longer the one that Russia … a context where the economic stakes are very high. For the EU and its gas companies, access to Russia's hydrocarbon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025535
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A neoinstitutionalist interpretation of the changes in the Russian oil model
Locatelli, Catherine; Rossiaud, Sylvain - HAL - 2011
This paper deals with the current change of the institutional and organizational framework of the Russian oil industry. Regarding this evolution, the main characteristic is the increasing involvement of national oil companies in the upstream activities. The point is to explain this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025866
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How Do Spouses Share their Full Income in Russia?: Identification of the Sharing Rule Using Self-reported Income
Kalugina, Ekaterina; Radtchenko, Natalia; Sofer, Catherine - HAL - 2009
The paper applies the collective model to the analysis of intra-household inequality using self-reported income scales and provides a test for its assumptions. We assume a correspondence between the income level that household members report and their true income sharing. Using Russian data, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738444