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The Contingency Thesis of Collective Bargaining Institutions
Traxler, Franz - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 2, pp. 34-39
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005048492
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Effects of Tax Depreciation Rules on Firms' Investment Decisions: A Comparison of European Transition Countries
Nam, Chang Woon; Radulescu, Doina Maria - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 2, pp. 52-55
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037410
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Hospital productivity and the Norwegian ownership reform – A Nordic comparative study
Kittelsen, Sverre A.C.; Magnussen, Jon; Sarheim Anthun, … - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
sector. The reform had three main aims; cost control, efficiency and reduced waiting times. This study investigates whether … are robust to choice of efficiency estimation technique and various definition of when the reform effect takes place. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005245177
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CHANGES IN SOCIAL WELFARE IN SINGAPORE - 1982-1999
Mukhopadhaya, Pundarik - Department of Economics, National University of Singapore - 2001
This paper examines the changes in social welfare in Singapore using Labour Force Survey data. To study the changes and dominance, both ordinal and cardinal measures are used. By Lorenz Dominance social welfare in Singapore during 1999 is less than in 1991 while unambiguous conclusion cannot be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292521
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On the optimal allocation of students when peer effect works: Tracking vs Mixing
Hidalgo-Hidalgo, Marisa - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2008
The belief that both the behavior and outcomes of students are affected by their peers is important in shaping education policy. I analyze two polar education systems -tracking and mixing- and propose several criteria for their comparison. I find that tracking is the system that maximizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385019
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Tenure, Wage Profiles and Monitoring
Sessions, John G.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - University of Cyprus Department of Economics - 2009
Efficiency wage theory predicts that firms can induce worker effort by the carrot of high wages and / or the stick of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015329
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How does competition affect efficiency and soundness in banking? New empirical evidence
Schaeck, Klaus; Čihák, Martin - European Central Bank - 2008
based approach to large data sets for European and U.S. banks, we offer new empirical evidence that efficiency plays a key … tests to establish the link between competition and measures of profit efficiency in banking, and find that competition … indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005344858
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A Comparison of Stochastic Frontier Approaches to Estimating Inefficiency and Total Factor Productivity: An Application to Irish Dairy Farming
Carroll, James; Newman, Carol; Thorne, Fiona - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2007
This paper compares standard stochastic frontier models for panel data with a number of recently developed models designed to remove unobserved heterogeneity from the inefficiency component. Results are used to construct a generalised Malmquist total factor productivity (TFP) index. We conclude...
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Private Wage Returns to Schooling in Nigeria: 1996-1999
Aromolaran, Adebayo B. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2002
efficiency, unless investments to increase school quality have higher private returns. With high private returns to post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357766
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Plural Form and Franchise Chains Efficency: A Dea Meta-Frontier Approach applied to French Chains
Perrigot, Rozenn; Piot-Lepetit, Isabelle; Cliquet, Gérard - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2012
). This research uses a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to assess franchise chains’ efficiency, and a meta-frontier approach … to analyze chains’ efficiency between and across sectors. The sample includes 43 chains of the service and retail sectors … between the PCO and the chain efficiency. Finally, there is no significant difference between the observed PCOs and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650737