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Cost efficiency, Morishima, Allen-Uzawa and Cross-Price elasticities among Irish potato farmers in Dedza district, Malawi

Assa, Maganga M.; Edriss, Abdi-Khalil; Matchaya, … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 1, pp. 59-73

Malawi has experienced a forward shift in its demand for Irish potato (Solanum tuberosum) consumption. Given limited resources at farmers’ disposal, meeting the growing demand will require farmers to follow the efficient path of the farm production resources. This paper, therefore, is an...

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Do high-skill immigrants raise productivity? : evidence from Israeli manufacturing firms, 1990-1999

Paserman, M. Daniele - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-31

This paper exploits the episode provided by the mass migration from the former Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s to study the effect high skill immigration on productivity. Using a unique data set on manufacturing firms, I investigate directly whether firms and industries with a higher...

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Eficiencia de las sociedades musicales de la Comunidad Valenciana

Rausell Koster, Pau; Coll-Serrano, Vicente; Abeledo … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 15 (2013), pp. 117-132

Empirical applications for assessing the efficiency in cultural organizations are still scarce. In this paper, we use a non-radial, output-oriented, DEA model for assessing the efficiency of a sample of 292 Musical Societies in the Valencian Community. The interest in this type of cultural...

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A parametric measure of productivity change from hyperbolic distance function : application to the Vietnamese banking industry

Vu, Ha; Turnell, Sean - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 5, pp. 63-96

Vietnamese banking industry experiences modest productivity growth. The thrust of this growth is technological progress, and to … some degree technical change, whereas scale efficiency change contributes negatively to productivity growth. Moreover …, foreign banks are found to have the highest productivity growth. -- Bayesian approach ; hyperbolic distance function …

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Befristete Beschäftigung hat keinen Einfluss auf die betriebliche Arbeitsproduktivität

Nielen, Sebastian; Schiersch, Alexander - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 21, pp. 14-17

Die Befristung von Arbeitsverträgen hat in den letzten Jahren zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. In der Folge wird auch intensiv über die positiven wie negativen Effekte dieser Beschäftigungsform diskutiert. Die Debatte beschränkt sich jedoch im Wesentlichen auf Arbeitsmarktaspekte und die...

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Forschende Unternehmen schneiden besser ab

Eickelpasch, Alexander - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 35, pp. 3-14

. Growth has been observed predominantly in companies in less research-intensive branch lines and in small and medium … steady growth in the contribution made by research-based companies to total manufacturing output and to employment. Moreover …

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Measuring and decomposing sources of productivity performance in India’s paper and pulp industry under liberalized regime : a nonparametric approach

Ray, Sarbapriya - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 147-171

The purpose of this study is to develop a methodology in measuring productivity growth by decomposing it into technical … of liberalization on productivity growth of India's paper industry. Specifically, this study quantifies the level of … productivity growth covering a period of 28 years commencing from 1979-80 to 2006-07. Finally, regressing the log difference of the …

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Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers : evidence from Turkey

Erdogan, Aysa Ipek - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 4, pp. 185-199

This article analyzes the horizontal productivity spillover effects of foreign ownership on Turkish firms that are among the top 500 industrial enterprises in Turkey. Using a panel of 215 firms over the period 2004-2008, we find that domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from...

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The influence of size on cost behaviour associated with tactical and operational flexibility

Argilés Bosch, Josep Maria; Blandón, Josep García - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 2, pp. 419-455

This paper contributes with an empirical analysis, using a sample of farms, on the influence of size on cost behaviour under operational and tactical flexibility. Results indicate that small farms behave advantageously with respect to biggest farms in situations of operational and tactical...

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Efficiency measurement in Greek dairy farms : stochastic frontier vs. data envelopment analysis

Theodoridis, A. M.; Psychoudakis, A. - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 1 (2008) 2, pp. 53-66

Analysis (DEA) have become very popular in the analysis of productive efficiency. This paper undertakes a comparison of the SFA and the constant returns to scale (CRS) and variable returns to scale (VRS) output-oriented DEA models, based on a sample of 165 dairy farms in Greece. However, the aim...

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