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Understanding Australia’s industry-level productivity dynamics: from measurement to econometric estimation

Zheng, Weiquan - 2009

This thesis investigates a range of issues related to the industry-level productivity growth in Australia. It approaches the issues from three different, but related angles. First, it derives the estimates of the industry-level multifactor productivity (MFP) index for the 12 market-sector...

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Input Substitution in the Spanish Food Industry

Alarcon, Silverio - 2005

Firm panel data sets over the period 1993 to 2002 are used to estimate translog production functions with labour, capital and material inputs for 9 Spanish food industries. To tackle the endogeneity of the regressors, the generalized method of moments estimations is employed. The specification...

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Heterogeneous Production Efficiency of Specialized Swine Producers

Tonsor, Glynn T.; Featherstone, Allen M. - 2006

This research evaluates the efficiency of swine firms differing by specialization type and employed technologies. Measures of technical, allocative, scale, economic, and overall efficiency are separately and jointly estimated for farrow-to-finish, farrow-to-feeder, feeder-to-finish,...

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The relationship between farm size and productivity: empirical evidence from the Nepalese mid-hills

Thapa, Sridhar - 2007

This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nepalese mid hills. The household data used has been drawn from a survey conducted by the author and financed by the Norwegian University of Life Science. The analysis uses models both allowing for and not allowing...

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A Note on the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Production

Simpson, R. David - 2001

There has been considerable recent interest in the valuation of ecosystem services. We focus here on the value of such services in the production of market goods. Although the conceptual basis for conducting such exercises is straightforward, the data with which to implement them empirically is...

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Price-cost mark-ups in the Spanish economy : a microeconomic perspective

Montero Montero, José Manuel; Urtasun Amann, Alberto - 2014

This paper explores the dynamics of price-cost mark-ups using firm-level data, paying particular attention to the crisis period 2008-2011. To this end, we apply the econometric framework developed by Klette (1999) to a comprehensive sample of Spanish non-financial corporations in order to...

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Virtual learning for health care managers

Robertson, Mary Eileen - 2006

The health industry in Canada, as well as in other industrial countries, has been in the process of reform for many … varies from country to country. In Canada, with a publicly funded health industry, the main reform method has been …-care managers in British Columbia, a western province of Canada. The study had a two-fold approach; to ascertain how health reform …

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Interior architecture in Australia and Canada, Part Two: A comparative study of the development of University Education for Interior Designers/Architects

Department of Architecture and Interior Architecture

/Interior Architecture between Canada and Australia. This paper discusses the similarities in the educational structure at universities … within Australia and between Australia and Canada causing concern as we find ourselves in a global competitive market place …/architecture education and practice in Australia and Canada. …

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Interior architecture in Australia and Canada, Part One: A comparative study of the development of a developing profession

Department of Architecture and Interior Architecture

two commonwealth countries--Australia and Canada. These countries are of a similar population, size, language, mother … economic events underpinning the progression both countries. It focuses on Australia and Canada from 1977 to 1999, and provides …

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Management accounting and strategic human resource management: a UK/Canadian comparative analysis

Vedd, Rishma; Kouhy, Reza - 2001

Finance Directors and Human Resource Directors from both Canada and the UK. The results reveal that Canadian Finance …

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