Productivity and Inequality

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Greene, William H. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Khalaf, Lynda (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Makdissi, Paul (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sickles, Robin C. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Veall, Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Voia, Marcel-Cristian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics,
• Subjects: Operations research.; Decision making.; Econometrics.; Public administration.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.; Public Administration.

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 sec...

Table of Contents:

• 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.