1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990001971610203316

Autore

PORRATA-DORIA, Rafael A.

Titolo

Mercosur : the Common Market of Southern Cone / Rafael A. Porrata-Doria, Jr.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, N. C. : Carolina Academic Press, copyr. 2005

ISBN

1-59460-010-4

Descrizione fisica

XI, 228 p. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

382.098

Soggetti

Mercato Comune dell'America Meridionale

Collocazione

XXIII.2.D. 238 (IG VIII 10 ING 1024)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910298189903321

Titolo

Productivity and Inequality / / edited by William H. Greene, Lynda Khalaf, Paul Makdissi, Robin C. Sickles, Michael Veall, Marcel-Cristian Voia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-68678-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, , 2198-7254

Disciplina

331.118

Soggetti

Operations research

Econometrics

Public administration

Operations Research and Decision Theory

Public Administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

"This book is the result of a selection of papers accepted at the North American Productivity Workshop (NAPW), which is a major biennial conference of researchers and practitioners on productivity and efficiency issues that is held every two years."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model with Application to Highway Maintenance Costs in England -- Chapter 2. Alternative User Costs, Productivity and Inequality in US Business Sectors -- Chapter 3. On the Allocation of Productivity Growth and the Determinants of US Income Inequality -- Chapter 4. Frontier Estimation of a Cost Function System Model with Local Least Squares: An Application to Dutch Secondary Education -- Chapter 5. Aggregate Productivity and Productivity of the Aggregate: Connecting the Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches -- Chapter 6. Confidence Sets for Inequality Measures: Fieller-type Methods -- Chapter 7. Poverty-Dominant Marginal Transfer Reforms in Socially Risky Situations -- Chapter 8. Exploring the Covariance Term in the Olley-Pakes Productivity Decomposition -- Chapter 9. The Decline of Manufacturing in Canada: Resource Curse, Productivity Malaise or Natural Evolution? -- Chapter 10. Flexible Functional Forms and Curvature Conditions: Parametric Productivity Estimation in Canadian and US Manufacturing Industries -- Chapter 11. Productivity Growth, Poverty Reduction and Income inequality: New Empirical Evidence -- Chapter 12. Contribution of Productivity and Price Change to Farm-level Profitability: A Dual Approach Analysis of Crop Production in Norway -- Chapter 13. Estimation of Health Care Demand and its Implication on Income Effects of Individuals -- Chapter 14. Quantile DEA: Estimating qDEA-alpha Efficiency Estimates with Conventional Linear Programming.

Sommario/riassunto

The volume highlights the state-of-the-art knowledge (including data analysis) of productivity, inequality and efficiency analysis. It showcases a selection of the best papers from the 9th North American Productivity Workshop. These papers are relevant to academia, but also to public and private sectors in terms of the challenges that firms, financial institutions, governments, and individuals may face when dealing with economic and education related activities that lead to increase or decrease of productivity. The volume also aims to bring together ideas from different parts of the world about the challenges those local economies and institutions may face when changes in productivity are observed. These contributions focus on theoretical and empirical research in areas including productivity, production theory and efficiency measurement in economics, management science, operation research, public administration, and education. The North American Productivity Workshop(NAPW) brings together academic scholars and practitioners in the field of productivity and efficiency analysis from all over the world, and this proceedings volume is a reflection of this mission. The papers in this volume also address general topics as education, health, energy, finance, agriculture, transport, utilities, and economic development, among others. The editors are comprised of the 2016 local organizers, program committee members, and celebrated guest conference speakers.