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The creation of job opportunities for the increasingly educated youth population is a major current policy challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, even though very little is known about the extent to which young workers in the region are satisfied with the employment they currently have. This paper...
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Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the stochastic production process in energy use. Special...
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This study applies a panel data stochastic frontier analysis to country data towards examining the effect of gender equity in labor market opportunities upon efficiency in the production of GDP. It finds that aggregate technical efficiency is improved by a widening of women's labor market...
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We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 …, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator. The … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …
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; productivity ; financial constraint ; export ; technology frontier ; BEEPS …
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This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's "productive efficiency" (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...
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We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
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Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency, whereas (b) good business environment which is considered...
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while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is … value added. -- Productivity ; growth decomposition ; efficiency ; manufacturing …
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