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Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States
Algan, Yann - 2011
This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
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When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation
Badunenko, Oleg - 2011
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 …
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Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises : An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon
Arando, Saioa - 2011
We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski …
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Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance
Pencavel, John H. - 2012
efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099086
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Efficient Targeting in Childhood Interventions
Paul, Alexander - 2020
Many targeted childhood interventions such as the Perry Preschool Project select eligible children based on a risk score. The variables entering the risk score and their corresponding weights are usually chosen ad hoc and are unlikely to be optimal. This paper develops a simple economic model...
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Relative Efficiency, Scale Effect, and Scope Effect of Public Hospitals : Evidence from Australia
Wang, Jian - 2007
Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by applying a stochastic-frontier multiproduct cost function. We use a flexible translog cost function to reduce the measurement errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main...
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Analyzing Cost Efficient Production Behavior Under Economies of Scope : A Nonparametric Methodology
Cherchye, L. - 2006
. We illustrate our methodology by examining the cost efficiency of research programs in Economics and Business Management … cost efficiency differences between universities within specific specialization areas, even when using shadow prices to …
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Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency
Nahm, Daehoon - 2014
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 …
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Corporate Efficiency, Credit Status and Investment
Quader, Manzur - 2014
switching regression models (SRM) incorporating a predicted corporate efficiency index are estimated in this paper in an effort …'s constrained credit status changes with the improvement of its efficiency. The results further reveal that financially constrained … related with corporate efficiency. These results point to the fact that high investment sensitivity to cash flow may not be …
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Identity Changes and the Efficiency of Reputation Systems
Wibral, Matthias - 2014
therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a new account. We study the effects of such identity changes on the efficiency …
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