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Productivity of the hired and family labour and determinants of technical inefficiency in Ghana's fish farms [PDF]
Agricultural Economics (Czech Republic), 2010 This paper examines the productivity of hired and family labour and determinants of technical inefficiency of fish farms in Ghana. A modified Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function which accounts for zero usage of family and hired labour is
Edward Ebo Onumah, Bernhard Brummer
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Correction: Determinants of hospital inefficiency. The case of Polish county hospitals
PLoS ONE, 2021 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256267.].
The Staff
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Determinants of hospital inefficiency. The case of Polish county hospitals.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Local hospitals play a crucial role in the healthcare system. In this study, the efficiency of Polish county hospitals is assessed by considering characteristics of hospitals that may determine their performance, such as the form of ownership, size, and ...
Agata Sielskas
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Determinants of technical inefficiency in solid waste collection service [PDF]
International Journal of Human Capital in Urban Management, 2022 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Developing countries have been experiencing a rapid increase in their population. This comes in hand with more human activity and hence increased solid waste generation as one of the by-products.
L.A. Chamwali, A.J. Mzava, S. Watundu
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Derivation of marginal effects of determinants of technical inefficiency [PDF]
Economics Letters, 2013 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Subal Kumbhakar, Kai Sun
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Determinants of Cost Inefficiency and Farmer Performance in Broiler Contract Farming
Tropical Animal Science Journal, 2023 The broiler industry plays an important role in meeting the growing demand for animal protein. Ensuring favorable farming conditions are needed to maintain the meat supply, and theoretically, this can be improved through the implementation of Contract ...
J. M. M. AJi +6 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Background and objective: Along with impaired aerobic capacity, increased slope of the relationship between ventilation (VE) and pulmonary CO2 output (VCO2), i.e., VE-VCO2 slope is a common finding in patients with cardiac amyloidosis (CA), which ...
Astrid Monfort +12 more
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Endogeneity, heterogeneity, and determinants of inefficiency in Norwegian crop-producing farms
International Journal of Production Economics, 2018 Abstract This paper addresses the endogeneity of inputs and output (which is mostly ignored in the stochastic frontier (SF) literature) in the SF panel data model under the behavioural assumption that firms maximize returns to the outlay. We consider a four component SF panel data model in which the four components are: firms' latent heterogeneity ...
Subal Kumbhakar +2 more
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Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan: Kajian Masalah Ekonomi dan Pembangunan, 2022 The current study examines the technical inefficiency of Indonesian manufacturing firms and its key determinants. Extending the previous research that mainly focuses on firms in a specific industry, the current study groups firms into nine industrial ...
S Suyanto +3 more
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Dependence modeling in stochastic frontier analysis
Dependence Modeling, 2022 This review covers several of the core methodological and empirical developments surrounding stochastic frontier models that incorporate various new forms of dependence.
Mamonov Mikhail E. +2 more
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