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Flower farming and flower marketing in West Bengal : a study of efficiency and sustainability
Sarker, Debnarayan; Chakravorty, Sanjukta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
For diversification in agriculture, one of the areas that have emerged as a fast growing sector recently in West Bengal is floriculture. In an attempt to examine empirically the relative efficiency between commercial traditional floriculture and its competing main field crops – Paddy, Jute,...
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Wheat Productivity, Efficiency, and Sustainability: A Stochastic Production Frontier Analysis
Ahmad, Munir; Chaudhry, Ghulam Mustafa; Iqbal, Muhammad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
inefficiency effects. Sufficient evidence of positive relationship between wheat productivity and higher and balanced use of … fertiliser nutrients was present. The productivity showed an inverse relationship with the proportionate farm area allocated to …
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Technical and Environmental efficiencies and Best Management Practices in Agriculture
Tamini, Lota D.; Larue, Bruno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
productivity index and the Fisher index. The two indices are used to measure changes in technology, profitability, efficiency, and … productivity in response to the adoption of 2 selected best management practices (BMPs) whose objective is to reduce water … profitability, efficiency and productivity. …
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Innovation, exports and technical efficiency in Spain
Diaz-Mayans, M. Angeles; Sánchez, Rosario; R - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
’ technical efficiency and then over their productivity. The analysis takes, also, into account other variables that could affect … productivity as industrial sector, or firms’ financial conditions. We use a micro panel data set of Spanish manufacturing firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109017
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Efficiency, Technological Progress and Regional Comparative Advantage: A Study of Organised Manufacturing Sector in India
Mukherjee, Dipa; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
championed on grounds of improving productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness. In a developing economy this is a costly … proposition due to capital scarcity, and the effect of technological changes on productivity and efficiency levels have to be … estimated before taking such policies. This paper seeks to estimate trends in Factor Productivity, Technological Progress, and …
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A decomposition analysis of capital structure: evidence from Pakistan’s manufacturing sector
Javed, Attiya Yasmin; Imad, Qaisar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study investigates the determinants of the various components of debt—short- and long-term debt and their categories—in the case of nonfinancial listed firms in Pakistan for the period 2008–10. We make a significant distinction between these determinants depending on the components of...
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On the distributional properties of size, pro fit and growth of Icelandic firms
Erlingsson, Einar Jón; Alfarano, Simone; Raberto, Marco; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, we analyze the distributional properties of the balance sheets of Icelandic firms by performing an empirical analysis of total assets, profit rates and growth rates using a data set of 2818 Icelandic firms during the period 2000-2009. We find that the firms size measure, i.e....
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Youth unemployment, firm size and reservation wages in South Africa
Rankin, Neil A.; Roberts, Gareth A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Youth unemployment in South Africa is high. We investigate whether one of the reasons may be that the wages young people want or need are above those that they could reasonably expect to earn given their characteristics. Unlike previous work on the relationship between reservation wages and...
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Performance Related Pay Coverage in the UK
Cowling, Marc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A simple model of the firms’ decision to pay workers performance related pay (PRP) is tested using company level data for 1,001 UK private sector businesses. From the basic sample statistics we observe that, on average, 26.5% of workers are covered by PRP systems. Yet this hides the fact that...
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Does the Firm Size Matter? An Empirical Enquiry into the Performance of Indian Manufacturing Firms
Bhattacharyya, Surajit; Saxena, Arunima - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The Law of Proportionate Effect depicts that firm’s growth rate is independent of its size; Gibrat (1931). Some of the existing studies support the Gibrat’s Law: Hymer and Pashigian (1962), Mansfield (1962), among others. However, Gale (1972), Shepherd (1972) and recently Punnose (2008)...
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