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Family-centered measures of access to early care and education
Davis, Elizabeth; Lee, Won Fy; Sojourner, Aaron - 2018
This study proposes new family-centered measures of access to early care and education (ECE) services with respect to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814820
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Technical efficiency, unions and decentralized labor contracts
Devicienti, Francesco; Manello, Alessandro; Vannoni, Davide - 2016
This paper explores the link between the presence of unions in the workplace, the adoption of decentralized labor agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We apply the Data Envelopment Analysis, and its robust version based on bootstrap theory, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571910
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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the world happiness report
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013431350
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Services offshoring and wages : evidence from micro data
Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737638
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The effect of product demand on inequality : evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
richer workers demand more low skill-intensive services (such as cleaning and personal services) but also more skill …-intensive services (such as education and professional services). The parametrization of a simple model suggests that this induced demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976873
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Japan and her dealings with offshoring : an empirical analysis with aggregate data
Agnese, Pablo - 2011
-2005. Moreover, I consider all industries within the economy and take account of both services and materials offshoring. My results … suggest that we should expect, on average, a positive effect of services and a negative effect of materials offshoring on …, with larger effects from services. In particular, the average offshoring industry displays 1.4 to 1.98 additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230680
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Analyzing cost efficient production behavior under economies of scope : a nonparametric methodology
Cherchye, Laurens (contributor); Rock, Bram de (contributor) - 2006
"In designing a production model for firms that generate multiple outputs, we take as a starting point that such multi-output production refers to economies of scope, which in turn originate from joint input use and input externalities. We provide a nonparametric characterization of cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375231
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When, where and how to perform efficiency estimation
Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal - 2011
In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias corrected DEA estimator of Kneip, Simar and Wilson (2008). We assess the finite sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422459
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Efficiency in poverty reduction : a state-level analysis for Bolivia
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Puerta-Cuartas, Alejandro; … - 2024
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486352
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Curbing cream-skimming : evidence on enrolment incentives
Courty, Pascal (contributor); Kim, Do Han (contributor);  … - 2008
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793550