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Decomposing Malmquist Productivity Indexes into Explanatory Factors

Diewert, Erwin; Fox, Kevin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013

Caves, Christensen, Diewert introduced Malmquist output, input and productivity indexes into production theory in a systematic way. These indexes use distance functions to represent the technology. In recent years, there have been many attempts to decompose Malmquist productivity indexes into...

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Reference Technology Sets, Free Disposal Hulls and Productivity Decompositions

Diewert, Erwin; Fox, Kevin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013

Diewert and Fox (2013) proposed decompositions of a Malmquist-type productivity index into explanatory factors, with a focus on extracting technical progress, technical efficiency change and returns to scale components. A major problem with their decompositions is that it may be difficult to...

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Decomposing Bjurek Productivity Indexes into Explanatory Factors

Diewert, Walter Erwin; Fox, Kevin J. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

Caves, Christensen, Diewert introduced Malmquist output, input and productivity indexes into production theory in a systematic way. This paper revisits the debate on how to decompose Bjurekâ€™s concept of a Malmquist productivity index into explanatory factors, with a focus on extracting...

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Malmquist and Törnqvist Productivity Indexes: Returns to Scale and Technical Progress with Imperfect Competition

Diewert, Erwin; Fox, Kevin J. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

Caves, Christensen and Diewert proposed a method for estimating a theoretical productivity index for a firm using Törnqvist input and output indexes, augmented by exogenous estimates of local returns to scale. However, in order to implement their method, they assumed that the firm maximized...

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Preparing for Success in Canada and the United States: the Determinants of Educational Attainment Among the Children of Immigrants

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

immigrants (the 2nd generation) in Canada and the United States. The focus is on the gap in educational attainment between the 2 … significantly above their counterparts with domestic born parents in Canada. In the U.S., educational levels are roughly the same … the positive gap between the 2nd and 3rd-and-higher generations remains in Canada. In Canada, parental education is less …

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The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005

Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that …

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The Persistence Behaviour of Registered Apprentices: Who Continues, Quits, or Completes Programs?

Laporte, Christine; Mueller, Richard - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

We utilize a multinomial probit model and the 2007 National Apprenticeship Survey (NAS) to investigate the persistence behaviour of individuals enrolled in apprenticeship programs. These behaviours include continuing, discontinuing (or quitting) and completing programs. The NAS contains detailed...

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Entry Earnings of Canadaâ€™s Immigrants over the Past Quarter Century: the Roles of Changing Characteristics and Returns to Skills

Hou, Feng - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

We examine whether the factors associated with the rise in the Canadian born - immigrant entry earnings gap played different roles in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early 2000s. We find that for recent immigrant men, shifts in population characteristics had the most important effect in the 1980s...

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Crucial contributors? Re-examining labour market impact and workplace-training intensity in Canadian trades apprenticeship

Meredith, John - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

and research in Canada, with greater attention to the diversity of actorsâ€™ strategic interactions with the training …

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Working In a Regulated Occupation in Canada: An Immigrant - Native-Born Comparison

Girard, Magali; Smith, Michael - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

study is that we use Statistics Canada data to classify occupations, across provinces, into regulated and unregulated …

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