This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's "productive efficiency" (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency … production efficiency. We argue that our results suggest that the debate about the implications of institutional quality is far … ; production efficiency ; stochastic frontier model …

A decline in poverty generally masks regional disparities that are due to varying efficiency among states. Using a … generalized true random-effects model, we distinguish between persistent and transient inefficiencies on subnational efficiency to … reduce poverty and its determinants in Bolivia. Our findings reveal that states differ in terms of efficiency, with some …

hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically …

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 …

lowered immigrant participation, and others have argued that this is true only in California. This paper analyzes the role of …

administrative data from California together with a regression kink (RK) design to estimate the causal impacts of benefits in the …

Many U.S. cities have recently increased their minimum wages, especially in California. We report results from carrying … employment effects, in our analysis of California cities we find a hint of negative employment effects, but the estimates are …. In our panel data analyses of all California or national local minimum wages, there is evidence pointing to declines in …

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …. -- bootstrap ; nonparametric kernel ; technical efficiency …