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Education and Technical Efficie [PDF]

The Pakistan Development Review, 1988
It is now well recognized that education expedites the process of growth in an economy. In agriculture, leaving aside the external effects, it affects productivity in two quite distinct ways known as the allocative effect and the worker effect (Welch" 1970).
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DECOMPOSING TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY AND WINDOW ANALYSIS

Studies in Economics and Finance, 2004
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and window analysis are used to follow the changes in Australian trading banks' pure technical efficiency, scale efficiency, and the nature of returns to scale. The main findings indicate declining average efficiency scores until 1991, followed by a steady rise thereafter. Pure technical inefficiency emerges as a greater
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Technical Change and Efficiency in Irish Agriculture [PDF]

Economic and Social Review, 2001
This paper calculates average technical efficiency levels and rates of technical change for Irish agriculture using an unbalanced panel of 2,603 farms drawn from the Irish National Farm Survey over the period 1984 to 1998. An average technical efficiency level of between 65 and 70 per cent with a slight upward trend over the period was found.
O'Neill, Suzanne, Matthews, Alan
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Technical Change and Efficiency

1995
Technical change plays a central role in dynamic economics. Economic theory considers technology as the main driving force behind economic growth of capitalist economies. From an economic viewpoint three aspects of technical change have been discussed as important in the current economic literature.
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An extended farrell technical efficiency measure

Journal of Economic Theory, 1984
When the efficient subsets and isoquants of the input level sets of a production technology are not equal, the conventional Debreu-Farrell efficiency index is not a reliable indicator of the efficiency of inputs usage. On the other hand, it possesses the property of being homogeneous of degree minus one in the inputs whose efficiency level is being ...
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Uncertainty and technical efficiency in Finnish agriculture

2009
Two salient features of modern economic growth are the rise in aggregate savings rates and the steady increase in life expectancy. This paper links these processes, showing that under certain conditions economic theory supports the hypothesis that increased longevity leads to higher aggregate savings in steady state.
Nauges, Celine, O'Donnell, Christopher J., Quiggin, John C.   +2 more
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Does Internet use improve technical efficiency? Evidence from apple production in China

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021
Ruifa Hu, Guanming Shi
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Water-use technical efficiency and income: Evidence from China's South-North Water Transfer Project

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022
Jichuan Sheng
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Decomposition of technical efficiency in agricultural production in Africa into transient and persistent technical efficiency under heterogeneous technologies

World Development, 2020
Philip K Adom, Samuel Adams
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Decomposition of the Technical Efficiency: Pure Technical and Scale Efficiency of the Financial System

2017
Sanderson Abel, Bara, Alex
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