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Competitiveness and growth of the Mexican economy

Chiquiar, Daniel; Ramos-Francia, Manuel - 2009

We address the role that deep, structural factors may have as determinants of Mexico's economic growth. We argue that Mexico's poor growth performance appears to be associated not only with shorter-run events such as the lost decade of the eighties, but also with supply-side features of the...

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Efficiency and productivity in the operational units of the armed forces

Hanson, Torbjørn - 2012

addressed the productivity and efficiency of the core area of the armed forces, operational units, using Data Envelopment … Analysis (DEA). Introducing a model for the production process of an operational unit, productivity and efficiency are …

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What Can Input Tell About Output? Analyzing Productivity and Efficiency in the Absence of Output measures

Mellander, Erik; Ysander, Bengt-Christer - 1988

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Measurement and analysis of the efficiency of human capital in a small enterprises in Poland

Bagieńska, Anna - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 11 (2015) 2, pp. 1-9

human capital measurement. The results confirmed that limited measurement and analysis of human capital efficiency in small …

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Impact of information technology on productivity and efficiency in Iranian manufacturing industries

Abri, Amir Gholam; Mahmoudzadeh, Mahmoud - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering International 11 (2015), pp. 143-157

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of information technology (IT) on the productivity and efficiency of … IT has a positive and statistically significant effect on the productivity of manufacturing industries. It will be more … labor productivity in IT-producing and IT-using industries. …

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Evaluación de la eficiencia y la productividad en el sector hotelero español: Un análisis regional

Alberca, Pilar; Parte, Laura - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 19 (2013) 2, pp. 102-111

This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric …. The results also show the rates of change in productivity in the period and its main determinants: efficiency change and … frontier DEA methodology has been used to assess the levels of efficiency of the hotel firms and Malmquist indices to estimate …

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The influence of size on winery performance: Evidence from Italy

Sellers Rubio, Ricardo; Sottini, Veronica Alampi - In: Wine Economics and Policy 5 (2016) 1, pp. 33-41

, the paper employs both different traditional profitability and productivity measures and a non-parametric technique to … estimate efficiency as indicators of performance. Further, several parametric and non-parametric tests are used to analyse the …

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Financing small and medium-sized enterprises in Thailand: The importance of bank loans and financing diversification

Ramcharran, Harri - In: The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance (JEF) 19 (2017) 2

2007 - 2014, we analyze the performance of this sector by applying several measures of productivity. We find average … productivity to be greater than one for: (a) SME output per unit of SME and (b) SME output per Baht loan. This satisfactory … emphasize human capital development to stem declining labor productivity and also increasing expenditures on R&D to promote …

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Decentralized Environmental Regulations and Plant-Level Productivity

Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to … efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily …

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The joint impact of improved maize seeds on productivity and efficiency: Implications for policy

Abro, Zewdu Ayalew; Legesse Debela, Bethelhem; Kassie, … - 2019

Productivity and efficiency are key performance indicators of improved seeds. Efficiency differences explain part of … the variation in productivity. Improved seeds may affect efficiency because farmers often do not apply inputs at optimum …. Improved seeds therefore not only directly affect productivity but also indirectly through efficiency. If productivity and …

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