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An ounce of prevention for a pound of cure : efficiency of community-based healthcare
Antonella Bancalari, Antonella; Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, … - 2023
We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014324883
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Does human capital endowment of FDI recipient countries really matter? : evidence from cross-country firm level data
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza - 2012
textiles and garments industry, we demonstrate that training indeed has greater impact on firm efficiency in developing … countries than formal education of the work force. -- human capital ; training ; firm-level efficiency ; multinational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009531948
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Intangible investment and technical efficiency : the case of software-intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309152
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Comparing micro-evidence on rent sharing from three different approaches
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2015
Empirical labor economists have resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay to assess the extent to which employers share rents with their employees. This paper compares this labor economics approach with two other approaches that rely on standard micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283105
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Econometric mediation analyses : identifying the sources of treatment effects from experimentally estimated production technologies with unmeasured and mismeasured inputs
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2013
This paper presents an econometric mediation analysis. It considers identification of production functions and the sources of output effects (treatment effects) from experimental interventions when some inputs are mismeasured and others are entirely omitted.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787343
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The production function for housing : evidence from France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2016
We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output as a latent variable and relies on the first-order condition for profit maximisation with respect to non-land inputs by competitive house builders. For parcels of a given size,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581668
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The relationship between economic growth and democracy : alternative representations of technological change
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Nam-Seok - 2017
This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production function specified as static and dynamic models using panel data. In estimating the production function, it applies a single time trend, multiple time trends and the general index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704213
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The bilingual gap in children's language and emotional development
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Harmon, Colm; Staneva, Anita - 2018
In this paper we examine whether - conditional on other family inputs - bilingual children achieve different outcomes in language and emotional development. Our data come from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) which allows us to analyze children's language and emotional development in depth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906473
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Comparing micro-evidence on rent sharing from two different econometric models
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2017
Researchers contributing to the empirical rent-sharing literature have typically resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to which employers share rents with their employees. This paper compares rent-sharing estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763822
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A decline in labor's share with capital accumulation and complementary factor inputs : an application of the Morishima elasticity of substitution
Paul, Saumik - 2019
The role of capital accumulation as a driver of the labor income share requires capital and labor to be substitutes, which appears paradoxical in a world predominantly characterized by complementarity between capital and labor. This paper argues that the composition of skills in the labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993096