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When, where and how to perform efficiency estimation

Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2011

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias corrected DEA estimator of Kneip, Simar and Wilson (2008). We assess the finite sample...

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Do social preferences increase productivity? Field experimental evidence from fishermen in Toyama Bay

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Seki, Erika - 2005

preferences of our field participants and their productivity at work. We also find that the stock of social preferences evolves …

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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - 2014

to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides …

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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides …

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Do Social Preferences Increase Productivity? Field Experimental Evidence from Fishermen in Toyama Bay

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Seki, Erika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

preferences of our field participants and their productivity at work. We also find that the stock of social preferences evolves …

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Total Factor Productivity Growth and Job Turnover in Mexican Manufacturing Plants in the 1990s

Calderon-Madrid, Angel; Voicu, Alexandru - 2004

specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and … the more significant vehicle for productivity enhancing effects of trade openness. Investment in technology is, by far …, most strongly correlated with plant productivity. Like productivity, job turnover at firm level is strongly influenced by …

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Panel data estimates of the production function and product and labor market imperfections

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2010

Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...

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Regulation and UK retailing productivity: evidence from micro data

Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. …

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Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

heterogeneity in productivity and factor prices symmetrically. The strength of the proposed estimator is illustrated by Monte Carlo …

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Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2013

This paper presents an econometric mediation analysis. It considers identification of production functions and the sources of output effects (treatment effects) from experimental interventions when some inputs are mismeasured and others are entirely omitted.

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