Agricultural productivity growth in the European Union and transition countries [PDF]
Malmquist total factor productivity (TFP) index has been extensively applied in the literature to measure productivity growth decomposition. This study applies a parametric decomposition of a Generalized Malmquist TFP index to measure and compare the ...
Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat +1 more
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Productivity Growth, Technical Efficiency and Technical Change on Minnesota Farms [PDF]
Changes and trends in farm productivity have been of intense interest to many involved with agriculture. This study used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate the output-oriented Malmquist total factor productivity (TFP) index from panel data for ...
Vu, Linh, Olson, Kent D.
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PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE CARIBBEAN: A MEASURE OF KEY COMPONENTS [PDF]
Productivity growth is decomposed into two components: technical change and efficiency change. This assesses their relative importance to the international competitiveness of the agricultural sectors of selected Caribbean countries.
Langham, Max R., Hutchinson, Sharon D.
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Productivity, Technical and Efficiency Change in Singapore's Services Sector, 2005 to 2008 [PDF]
The current study was motivated by statements made by the Economic Strategies Committee that Singapore's recent productivity levels in services were well below countries such as the US, Japan and Hong Kong. Massive employment of foreign workers was cited
Boon Lee
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Journal of Obstetrics and GynaecologyBackground Pregnancy and childbirth are vulnerable periods for women’s mental health, with common occurrences of postnatal depression (PPD), postpartum post-traumatic stress symptoms (PP-PTSS) and postnatal severe fear of childbirth (PP-FOC).
Hanna Grundström +3 more
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Agricultural productivity growth in the Mediterranean and tests of convergence among countries [PDF]
This paper measures agricultural productivity among a set of thirteen Mediterranean countries which includes two EU- 15 countries (Greece and Spain), another two EU- 25 (Cyprus and Malta) one country under accession negotiations (Turkey) and eight Middle
Galanopoulos, Konstantinos +3 more
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Selection, covariance, and Malmquist bias
The Astrophysical Journal, 1993 The correction for Malmquist bias is generally thought to have the form αΔ 2 , where Δ is the rms fractional error for a given distance indicator and α is a numerical coefficient which depends on the galaxy distribution and other aspects of the problem.
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Exact Relations between Four De?nitions of Productivity Indices and Indicators [PDF]
Generalizing earlier approximation results, we establish exact relations between the Luenberger productivity indicator and the Malmquist productivity index under rather mild assumptions.
Kristiaan Kerstens +2 more
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Estimating Total Factor Productivity and Its Components: Evidence from Major Manufacturing Industries of Pakistan [PDF]
This paper estimates the trend in total factor productivity growth for eleven major manufacturing sub-sectors/industries listed on Karachi Stock Exchange.
Abdul Qayyum +3 more
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Public and Private Inputs in Aggregate Production and Growth: A Cross-country Efficiency Approach [PDF]
In a cross section of OECD countries we replace the macroeconomic production function by a production possibility frontier, TFP being the composite effect of efficiency scores and possibility frontier changes.
António Afonso, Miguel St. Aubyn
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