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Outsourcing of services, imported materials and the demand for heterogeneous labour : an application of a generalised Box-Cox function

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000

This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...

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Cost efficiency and subsidization in German local public bus transit

Nieswand, Maria; Walter, Matthias - 2013

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Cost efficiency and subsidization in German local public bus transit

Nieswand, Maria; Walter, Matthias - 2010

subsidies relative to total costs. However, we also find that non-subsidized firms perform better in terms of cost efficiency …. -- Stochastic cost frontier ; subsidies ; heteroscedasticity ; local public bus transportation ; cost efficiency ; panel data …

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Cost Efficiency and Subsidization in German Local Public Bus Transit

Nieswand, Maria; Walter, Matthias - 2010

subsidies relative to total costs. However, we also find that non-subsidized firms perform better in terms of cost efficiency …

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Local governments in the wake of demographic change : efficiency and economies of scale in German municipalities

Geys, Benny (contributor); Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor) - 2007

a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of Baden-Württemberg). First, we consider local government cost efficiency …. This indicates that there is a substantial divergence in efficiency despite a homogeneous institutional setting, leaving at …