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Slave Redemption When it Takes Time to Redeem Slaves
Rogers, Carol Ann; Swinnerton, Kenneth A - EconWPA - 2005
program can slow the flow of people into the actual state of slavery, but at the same time can increase the number of people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005550973
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The Roads To and From Serfdom
Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002
The institution of slavery displays a puzzling historical pattern: it is found mostly at intermediate stages of … agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern of slavery in a growth model with land and labor as inputs in … into slavery, to a force behind the transition from slavery to free labor. Our model also explains several other historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125014
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The Roads To and From Serfdom
Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002
The institution of slavery displays a puzzling historical pattern: it is found mostly at intermediate stages of … agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern of slavery in a growth model with land and labor as inputs in … into slavery, to a force behind the transition from slavery to free labor. Our model also explains several other historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125652
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Growth Accounting for Some Selected Developing, Newly Industrialized and Developed Nations from 1966-2000: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004
We work out technical efficiency levels of 29 countries consisting of some selected South Asian, East Asian and EU countries using data envelopment analysis. Luxembourg has an efficiency score of one(most efficient) in all the years .Netherlands also has an efficiency score of one in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408241
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Technical Efficiency of Australian Wool Production: Point and Confidence Interval Estimates
Fraser, Iain; Horrace, William C. - EconWPA - 2002
A balanced panel of data is used to estimate technical efficiency, employing a fixed-effects stochastic frontier specification for wool producers in Australia. Both point estimates and confidence intervals for technical efficiency are reported. The confidence intervals are constructed using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076575
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Growth Accounting for Some Selected Developing, Newly Industrialized and Developed Nations from 1966-2000: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2005
We work out technical efficiency levels of 29 countries consisting of some selected South Asian, East Asian and EU countries using data envelopment analysis. Luxembourg has an efficiency score of one(most efficient) in all the years .Netherlands also has an efficiency score of one in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556715
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Efficiency of Delhi International Airport Using Data Envelopment
Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004
We work out the efficiency index of the Delhi Airport using monthly data(March 2000 through July 2004) of international and total traffic of aircraft's, passengers & cargo movements . The study compares the Delhi Airport technical efficiency index with the efficiency indexes of some selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561389
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Industrial Sector Growth Accounting of Some Indian States and Union Territories: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Mathur, Somesh Kumar; Ahmed, Shahid - EconWPA - 2005
We work out technical efficiency levels of the Indian States and Union Territories using Data Envelopment Analysis from 1980-81 to 1997-98. We decompose net value added per worker growth into components attributable to technological changes (shifts in the overall production...
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