Shephard’s distance functions are widely used instruments for characterizing technology and for estimating efficiency …

This paper uses an OLG model to analyze the dilemma between efficiency and fairness, and then give a numerical … simulation for China’s reform practice in pension system with Chinese data.Results showed that :1)Compared to efficiency and fair … improving efficiency and fair distribution,more investment was needed to improve human capital,and the school education and …

)Efficiency and equity are the two aspects of pension system ,and the aging problem,labor productivity,ma- croeconomic environment …,et al. will affect the relationship between efficiency and equity.(2)Parameter adjusting and Structure reforming is a good … important ,but also the efficiency,the disequilibrium of capital market and labor market can be improved through pension …

This study examines the technical efficiency of schools in Australia and its determinants using NAPLAN test results of … region, state and territory in which the school is located. We estimate that the average technical efficiency score of … target for schools in the sample to reach the efficiency frontier is 100 NAPLAN points. Our results suggest that eliminating …

The aim of this work is to study the efficiency of firms operating in Calabria, a small and economically … manufacturing firms which are observed over the 1998-2006 period. Results show that the efficiency score is, on average, about 60 …%. A declining trend is observed over the last three-year period, 2004-2006. Moreover, firm efficiency increases with firm …

definition of efficiency, and addresses the dimensionality issues of ANNs with minimum sample size requirements. …