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levels of productivity and efficiency of seaports in India. This paper applies DEA technique to assess productivity and … productivity and efficiency of the port sector. Since, there is an attempt in recent years to overhaul the infrastructure sectors … of the Indian economy and especially seaports. There is a need to look at issues in port sector as well. Productivity and …
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Productivity, Efficiency, Environment, Dimensionality. - The economic and ecological performance of OECD countries over … two decades is measured by employing a Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index. The index credits the expansion of goods … and dimensionality. Our findings suggest to employ aggregate analyses of productivity to identify crucial dimensions …
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This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional-national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case studies of Italy and the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome. Shift-share analyses provide evidence on the drivers of environmental efficiency and on sector...
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Although financial indicators are most often used to measure organizational efficiency, contemporary research suggests that more consideration should be given to non-material factors that can be enveloped by different non-parametric techniques. However, there is no method powerful enough to...
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this period: the change in skilled labor supply is endogenous in the model. Compared to its productivity, skilled labor is …
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This paper proposes an efficiency analysis of the major European incumbent firms in the fixed telecommunications sector. The non-parametric approach, that has been adopted here, expresses the efficiency according to a directional distance measure, allowing to consider the different nature of...
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We introduce an ordinal model of efficiency measurement. Our primitive is a notion of e ciency that is comparative, but not cardinal or absolute. In this framework, we postulate axioms that we believe an ordinal efficiency measure should satisfy. Primary among these are choice consistency and...
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In this paper we analyze the levels of technical efficiency and productivity growth attained by Spanish insurance … companies during a period of deregulation. We compute Malmquist productivity indexes using the estimates of parametric distance … estimated scores indicate low productivity growth (less than 2% per year) compared with a huge increase in insurance activity …
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