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This collection of articles contributes to knowledge of the German insurance industry after its liberalization by analyzing changes in the structure and choice of distribution channels in private insurance markets in the first and second article. In a third article the development of market...
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Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …
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process of opening up trade caused impacts on the efficiency of the states in the industries of furniture, as well as the … operations, such as product were used the rule value of the production less exports. What if realized was a fall in efficiency …, increasing inequality regional furniture industry, but this efficiency fall has been accompanied by an increase in productivity. …
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efficiency under strong disposability and weak disposability and a modified output oriented Malmquist index. The graph measure of … technical efficiency accounting for undesirable outputs reveals that regulations of agriculture GHG emission would be effective … efficiency change has been invariant to the treatment of the undesirable output as input. The average productivity growth is 2 …
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The analysis of technical efficiency (TE) on the small-scale fishery is relevant for several reasons. While this type … their efficiency. Indeed, there is no precise information on the contribution of the small-scale fisheries to livelihoods … constrain the efficiency? Aiming for a contribution on the knowledge of the small-scale fisher’s performance; this research …
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concept with the learning progress function characterized by the degree of efficiency and the specification of the learning … of comparable firms. We further differentiate learning efficiency from the technical efficiency. The key contribution of … firm-level heterogeneity in learning. The time varying technical efficiency is estimated based on stochastic production …
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The paper measures the U.S. Farm Credit System’s technical efficiency from 2000 to 2009 using a stochastic frontier … and investment. The efficiency of the whole system is estimated to slightly increase over time even during financial … crisis period from 2007. Among the system, a significant difference in efficiency between the 5Banks and the Associations has …
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their farming sector’s efficiency. While one aim of farm support in the European Union (EU) is to promote efficient farms … farms’ performance. Analyses using pre-accession technical efficiency scores calculated with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA … efficiency. The main reasons are the negative link between farm efficiency and subsidies already present in pre-EU accession …
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This paper offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. I examine the usefulness of some standard interpretations for such variations, namely...
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