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Productivity, efficiency, and technical change of Tunisian schools : a bootstrapped Malmquist approach with quasi-fixed inputs
Essid, Hédi; Ouellette, Pierre; Vigeant, Stéphane - In: Omega : the international journal of management science 42 (2014), pp. 88-97
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010205154
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Nonparametric statistical analysis of production
Mastromarco, Camilla; Simar, Léopold; Wilson, Paul W. - In: The Palgrave handbook of economic performance analysis, (pp. 301-382). 2019
A rich literature on the analysis of efficiency in production has developed since pioneering work of Tjalling Koopmans … some shape constraints, in multiple dimensions. New results that enable inference about mean efficiency as well as tests of … convexity, returns to scale, differences in mean efficiency and the separability condition described by Simar and Wilson …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175845
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10 years of transition in Ukraine agriculture: An analysis of productivity and efficiency of enterprises
Lissitsa, Aleksej; Odening, Martin; Babiéceva, Tamara - 2003
This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agricultural enterprises during … productivity, TFP) крупных сельскохозяйственных предприятий Украины в период перехода к рыночной экономике. В данном случае … - с помощью Малмквист-индекса изменения общей продуктивности факторов (англ. Malmquist productivity change index, MPI) в …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299409
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Russischer Agrarsektor im Aufschwung? Eine Analyse der technischen und Skaleneffizienz der Agrarunternehmen
Stange, Henriette; Lissitsa, Alexej - 2003
This Discussion Paper has been occupied with the analysis of the technical and scale efficiency of Russian farms during … methodical instrument has been chosen an input-oriented model of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for efficiency measurement as … model calculations show an improvement in average efficiency from 1993 to 2000. In consideration of the performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299452
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Returns to Education and Wage Equations
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2001
We show why considering a number of education-dependent covariates in the wage equation decreases coefficient of education in the wage equation. We use a meta-analysis of results for Portugal to show, empirically, that this is the case. The coefficient decreases when we use covariates that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262504
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Alumni giving of business executives to the alma mater: Panel data evidence at a large metropolitan research university
Okunade, Albert A.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2011
Charitable giving to public and private institutions of higher learning in the US is a growing major source of financing academic and support programs. The novel contribution of this research is the estimation of an econometric model of gift-giving alumni business executives of a large public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274610
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Returns to education and wage equations
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2001
We show why considering a number of education-dependent covariates in the wage equation decreases coefficient of education in the wage equation. We use a meta-analysis of results for Portugal to show, empirically, that this is the case. The coefficient decreases when we use covariates that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401392
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The productivity of Colombian public schools and its determinants from a value-added perspective, 2014-2019 : an empirical analysis
Agasisti, Tommaso; Arias, Juliana; Bernal, Gloria L.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 32 (2023), pp. 1-25
envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist index, this study measures the efficiency of public schools in Colombia and their … productivity evolution. The sample includes 3,854 public schools and standardized test records for students in 9th and 11th grade … for the period 2014-2019. The findings reveal that productivity remained relatively stagnant in the period and that on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514703
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The importance of measuring dispersion in firm-level outcomes : ignoring the large variation in firm-level outcomes can create misunderstandings about the consequences of many poli...
Syverson, Chad - 2014
Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven by large reallocations of inputs and outputs across firms (churning) within industries and markets. These differences in firm-level outcomes and the associated turnover of firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417130
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Do works councils raise or lower firm productivity? : works councils can have a positive impact on firm productivity, but only when specific conditions are in place
Hübler, Olaf - 2015
on a firm's productivity and what the consequences are for a firm's profits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430237