Testing for the Impact of Skill-based Technologies on Employment of the Workforce in Iran [PDF]
پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2013 On one hand, the skill-based technologies increase productivity and output, reduce inflation and raise income. On the other hand, human skills are essential for implementing, adopting, utilizing physically and practically of modern and imported ...
Mostafa Emadzadeh +3 more
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Size and Scale Economies in Japanese Cooperative Banking [PDF]
The Japanese banking industry, including the cooperative sector has been restructured following the crisis of the 1990s. Here we examine the relationship between size and scale economies of cooperative banks in Japan (namely Shinkin and credit ...
Carol Padgett, Tara Deelchand
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A cost function for HIV prevention services: is there a 'u' – shape?
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2007 Background Global resource needs estimation is a critical part of addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic. To generate these estimates knowledge of costs and cost structures is required. The evidence base for costs of HIV prevention programmes is limited.
Hanson Kara +2 more
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Capacity Utilization in Indian Paper Industry [PDF]
The study estimates the rate of capacity utilization for the Indian paper industry for the period 1973-74 to 1997-98 on the basis of the theoretical framework of variable cost function.
Kaustuva Barik
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Analysing industrial water demand in India: An input distance function approach. [PDF]
This study investigates the water demand of Indian manufacturing plants. It adopts an input distance function approach and approximates it by a translog form.
Kumar, Surender
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A TRANSLOG COST FUNCTION ANALYSIS OF U.S. AGRICULTURE: A DYNAMIC SPECIFICATION [PDF]
This study has used an empirical approach developed by Urga and Walters (2003) to examine the implications of the short-run specification of the standard translog cost specification along with the possible implications of non-stationarity.
Ball, V. Eldon +3 more
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UKERC Review of evidence for the rebound effect: Technical report 3: Elasticity of substitution studies [PDF]
, 2007 This Working Paper forms part of the TPA’s assessment of evidence for a rebound effect from improved energy efficiency. Technical Report 3 focuses upon empirical estimates of the elasticity of substitution between energy and capital.
Broadstock, David +2 more
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Assessment of water economic value in wheat and rapeseed farms (Case Study: Qazvin plain irrigation network) [PDF]
مهندسی منابع آب, 2019 In the recent decades, water resources have been severely under pressure due to increasing demand. Besides, use of water by some users affects the possibility of using water by other users.
m a, s kh, sayed Habibullah Mosavi
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A COMPARISON OF RESAMPLING TECHNIQUES WHEN PARAMETERS ARE ON A BOUNDARY: THE BOOTSTRAP, SUBSAMPLE BOOTSTRAP, AND SUBSAMPLE JACKKNIFE [PDF]
This paper compares the finite sample performance of subsample bootstrap and subsample jackknife techniques to the traditional bootstrap method when parameters are constrained to be on some boundary.
Hilmer, Christiana E., Holt, Matthew T.
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THE MULTI-PRODUCT ASYMPTOTICALLY IDEAL MODEL: AN APPLICATION TO AGRICULTURE [PDF]
This paper examines the Multi-Product Asymptotically Ideal Production Model as an alternative to the translog and normalized quadratic functional forms using farm level data.
Featherstone, Allen M., Lusk, Jayson L.
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