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to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most … shocks also caused downturns in the early and mid 90s. On the other hand, demand shocks captured by the efficiency change …
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This paper discusses efficiency considerations underlying the widespread exemption of food from sales and value added … (including labour). On efficiency grounds, the exemption of food in sales and value added taxes …
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-sharing that improves efficiency.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries …
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production, as theory has hypothesized. The number of members in a group decreases both the quantity produced and the efficiency … arrangements on productive efficiency in medical group practices. The technique employed is two-stage production frontier … estimation. This technique provides direct estimates of productive efficiency and allows for differences across agents in ability …
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This paper provides a method to measure the traditional Kaldor-Hicks notion of “economic efficiency” when taxes affect … behavior. In contrast to traditional unweighted surplus, measuring efficiency requires weighting individual benefits (or … results suggest that measuring economic efficiency requires weighting surplus accruing to the poor roughly 1.5-2 times more …
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This paper develops a general theory of aggregation in inefficient economies. We provide non-parametric formulas for … mobility, and input-output network linkages. We show how to separately measure changes in technical and allocative efficiency … U.S. We find that improvement in allocative efficiency, due to the reallocation over time of market share to high …
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-constant returns to scale, input-output linkages, and distortions. We decompose output changes into technical and allocative efficiency … example, we show that the efficiency losses caused by markups in the US rise from around 20% of GDP to around 40% once we …
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Using a newly compiled data set, this paper provides insights into the characteristics of the child care industry. First, there is no difference in average quality of the services produced between nonprofit and for-profit centers. This indicates that nonprofit status cannot be taken as a signal...
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of developed and developing countries show general problems with the efficiency of resource usage similar to those found …
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This study documents a strong inverse relationship between accident rates and production in a sample of eleven firms in the same narrowly defined industry classification. Given the detailed set of input controls and controls for plant-specific and time-specific factors used in the analysis, the...
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