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This paper examines the relationship between individuals' weight and their employment decisions over the life cycle. I estimate a dynamic stochastic model of individuals' annual joint decisions of occupation, hours worked, and schooling. The model allows body weight to affect non-monetary costs,...
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Malmquist Productivity Indexes over individual decision making units (firms, countries, etc.) into a group Malmquist … Productivity Index. We also consider the aggregation of decomposed parts of the Malmquist Productivity Index to obtain a … decomposition of the Malmquist Productivity Index for a particular group. …
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measuring the labor productivity of each organization that provides services and comparing it to the benchmark. Two main results …This article presents a benchmarking model for measuring the efficiency of organizations that provide humanitarian aid …
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measuring the labor productivity of each organization that provides services and comparing it to the benchmark. Two main results …This article presents a benchmarking model for measuring the efficiency of organizations that provide humanitarian aid …
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The goal of the paper is to evaluate the impact of reducing the administrative costs on the efficiency in the public … productivity in the public sector. The theoretical results are empirical exemplified for a local service of public utility …
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The objective of this paper is to measure the efficiency of high schools in Tunisia. We use a statistical Data … and correct the bias, and to construct confidence intervals for the efficiency measures. The simulation results show that … the efficiency measures are subject to sampling variations. The adjusted measure reveals that high schools with residence …
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rather than efficiency increase. For the cases of productivity decline, however, the changes come from the efficiency side …This paper aims to find the productivity change in the banking sector between 1990 and 2006, with an emphasis to the … Malmquist TFP Change Index and its mutually exclusive and exhaustive components of efficiency and technological changes over …
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data set and the latest technique for analysis. The paper focuses on growth in total factor productivity and its … decomposition into technical change and efficiency change components. The analysis is undertaken using the data envelopment analysis … period, total factor productivity has experienced a positive evolution in sampled countries. This good performance of the …
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(1) The basic problem in OECD countries is the tax void. (2) A tax system with an exemption is more transparant than a system with a tax credit. (3) Exemption should be at the level of the net minimum wage so that such workers can work at net = gross. (4) A tax credit is a sufficient but not a...
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Improvements in the effectiveness and efficiency of supply-side waste management are necessary in many countries. In …-management efficiency. In this study, we measure the efficiency of waste management and explore how technology is related to technical … efficiency. We find that municipalities are likely to adopt less-efficient technologies and that the central government …
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