Productivity And Inequality 1st Ed. 2018

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 9 th 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. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model with Application to Highway Maintenance Costs in England (Alexander D. Stead, Phill Wheat, William H. Greene)....Pages 1-19 Alternative User Costs, Productivity and Inequality in US Business Sectors (W. Erwin Diewert, Kevin J. Fox)....Pages 21-69 On the Allocation of Productivity Growth and the Determinants of U. S. Income Inequality (Shasha Liu, Robin C. Sickles, Shiyi Zhang)....Pages 71-101 Frontier Estimation of a Cost Function System Model with Local Least Squares: An Application to Dutch Secondary Education (Jos L. T. Blank)....Pages 103-118 Aggregate Productivity and Productivity of the Aggregate: Connecting the Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches (Bert M. Balk)....Pages 119-141 Confidence Sets for Inequality Measures: Fieller-Type Methods (Jean-Marie Dufour, Emmanuel Flachaire, Lynda Khalaf, Abdallah Zalghout)....Pages 143-155 Poverty-Dominant Marginal Transfer Reforms in Socially Risky Situations (Paul Makdissi, Quentin Wodon)....Pages 157-167 Exploring the Covariance Term in the Olley-Pakes Productivity Decomposition (Giannis Karagiannis, Suzanna M. Paleologou)....Pages 169-182 The Decline of Manufacturing in Canada: Resource Curse, Productivity Malaise or Natural Evolution? (Robert Petrunia, Livio Di Matteo)....Pages 183-202 Flexible Functional Forms and Curvature Conditions: Parametric Productivity Estimation in Canadian and U.S. Manufacturing Industries (Jakir Hussain, Jean-Thomas Bernard)....Pages 203-228 Productivity Growth, Poverty Reduction and Income Inequality: New Empirical Evidence (Mahamat Hamit-Haggar, Malick Souare)....Pages 229-254 The Contribution of Productivity and Price Change to Farm-level Profitability: A Dual Approach Analysis of Crop Production in Norway (Habtamu Alem)....Pages 255-273 Estimation of Health Care Demand and its Implication on Income Effects of Individuals (Hossein Kavand, Marcel Voia)....Pages 275-304 Quantile DEA: Estimating qDEA-alpha Efficiency Estimates with Conventional Linear Programming (Joseph A. Atwood, Saleem Shaik)....Pages 305-326 Erratum to: Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model with Application to Highway Maintenance Costs in England (Alexander D. Stead, Phill Wheat, William H. Greene)....Pages E1-E1 Back Matter ....Pages 327-336 "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."--Publisher's description "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."-- Provided by publisher Annotation 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