AlgorithmsInnovation-driven labor markets play a pivotal role in economic development, yet significant disparities exist in how efficiently countries transform innovation inputs into labor market outcomes.
Chia-Nan Wang, Giovanni Cahilig
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Sources of Productivity Changes of Commercial Banks in Developing Economy: Evidence from Malaysia, 1998-2003 [PDF]
Applying a non-parametric Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) method, this paper attempts to investigate the productivity changes of Malaysian banks during the post crisis period of 1998-2003.
SUFIAN, Fadzlan
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Incorporating service quality into yardstick regulation: An application to the Peru water sector [PDF]
, 2008 Yardstick regulation requires the utilization of benchmarking, a valuable tool for improving public service delivery, especially in developing countries where inefficiencies translate into negative health impacts and social unrest.
Berg, SV, Lin, C
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Cogent Social SciencesChildhood immunization rates in many sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have stagnated, trailing behind other global regions. This study evaluates the efficiency of childhood immunization service delivery and its environmental determinants in 36 SSA ...
Kwadwo Arhin +2 more
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The Relative Efficiency of Container Terminals in Small and Medium-Sized Ports in China
Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics, 2015 The promotion of domestic consumption in China will gradually ramp up the small and medium-sized port container industry, and this will require greater port efficiency and an updated development strategy.
Zi-Yao Ding +3 more
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Measuring the efficiency and productivity of the Croatian banks with Malmquists index of change of total factor productivity [PDF]
In the literature that deals with the empirical measurement of relative technical efficiency and change in the productiveness of banks over time the Malmquist index of change of total factor productivity has become the most often-used analytical tool. It
Marko Primorac, Zvonimir Troskot
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Is technical progress sectorally concentrated? An empirical analysis for Western European countries [PDF]
, 2012 Previous research shows that technical progress at the industry level, measured by sectoral TFP growth, is more localized in continental European countries than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
Belitz, Heike +2 more
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Multidimensional Approach to Evaluation of Visegrad Countries`competitiveness in Comparison with Austria and Germany [PDF]
Journal of Competitiveness, 2012 The paper deals with an application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method to multicriteria performance evaluation of the Visegrad Four countries (V4) in comparison with selected advanced European Union’s (EU) countries – Austria and Germany.
Staníčková Michaela, Melecký Lukáš
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The performance of Croatian hotel companies – DEA window and Malmquist productivity index approach [PDF]
Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci : časopis za ekonomsku teoriju i praksuThe hospitality industry operates in a dynamic and competitive environment where efficiency and productivity are crucial for sustainable success. The main goal of this paper is to assess the dynamic changes in the efficiency and productivity of large and
Andrea Arbula Blecich
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Malmquist productivity index decompositions: a unifying framework [PDF]
, 2006 In two widely cited but unpublished working papers, Simar and Wilson (1998) and Zofío and Lovell (1998) proposed an alternative decomposition of the Malmquist Productivity Index, which retained what seemed to be the strongholds of previous proposals ...
Zofío Prieto, José Luis
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