Download or read book An Analysis of Some Issues Related to a Measure of Productive Efficiency in Canadian Manufacturing written by J. D. May and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Productivity and Efficiency Analysis written by William H. Greene and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume examines the state-of-the art of productivity and efficiency analysis and adds to the existing research by bringing together a selection of the best papers from the 8th North American Productivity Workshop (NAPW). It also aims to analyze world-wide perspectives on challenges that local economies and institutions may face when changes in productivity are observed. The volume comprises of seventeen papers that deal with productivity measurement, productivity growth, dynamics of productivity change, measures of labor productivity, measures of technical efficiency in different sectors, frontier analysis, measures of performance, industry instability and spillover effects. These papers are relevant to academia, but also to public and private sectors in terms of the challenges 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 North American Productivity Workshop brings together academic scholars and practitioners in the field of productivity and efficiency analysis from all over the world. It is a four day conference exploring topics related to productivity, production theory and efficiency measurement in economics, management science, operations research, public administration, and related fields. The papers in this volume also address general topics as health, energy, finance, agriculture, utilities, and economic dev elopment, among others. The editors are comprised of the 2014 local organizers, program committee members, and celebrated guest conference speakers.
Download or read book A Frontier Approach to Canada U S Multifactor Producivity Performance written by Kaïs Dachraoui and published by Statistics Canada. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Frontier Approach to Canada U S Multifactor Productivity Performance written by Statistics Canada. Micro-Economic Analysis Division and published by Statistics Canada. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper explores an alternate experimental measure of multifactor productivity growth based on the production frontier, a method that benchmarks observed units (firms or industries) against an estimated best-practice production frontier. This estimated frontier specifies the maximum possible output that can be produced from different combinations of inputs, based on the observed input-output mixes of sampled industries or firms. Benchmarking each unit against such a frontier generates a relative measure of its efficiency compared to what is theoretically possible by following best practice. This measure is based on distance from the estimated production frontier.
Download or read book An Analysis of Canadian Manufacturing Productivity written by Harry H. Postner and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction: There are two main purposes of this Study. The first is to develop a general model and methodology capable of identifying and measuring the sources of productivity growth for an industry. The second purpose is to apply the methodology in order to explain why productivity growth rates differ from industry to industry within the Canadian manufacturing sector. Productivity growth is analysed over the medium term by studying trend growth rates for periods of nine or ten years' duration. The manufacturing industries are examined at the two-digit Standard Industrial Classification.
Download or read book Developments in Econometric Analyses of Productivity written by Ali Dogramaci and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inefficiency in Industry written by David G. Mayes and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this book examine the nature and causes of inefficiency in manufacturing industry. They provide a detailed examination of the nature of inefficiency and the issues involved in its measurement. A detailed examination of inefficiency in Australian and British industry is made with an identification of the sources of inefficiency and a comparison of the two countries. The implications for government policy and industrial strategy are analyzed.
Download or read book Determinants of Canadian Productivity Growth written by Richard G. Harris and published by Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations. This book was released on 1999 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper looks at the future for productivity growth in Canada. Chapter 2 discusses theory and measurement issues. Two themes are covered: the link between productivity and living standards; the relationship between theory and measurement in light of the widespread use of the concept of multifactor productivity. Chapter 3 discusses the empirical literature on the determinants or drivers of productivity growth including investment, education and training, innovation, diffusion, and the broader context in which productivity growth is set. Chapter 4 deals with the prospects for future productivity growth in Canada. Chapter 5 concludes with a discussion of how traditional economic policies should account for potential productivity effects.
Download or read book The Choice of Productivity Measures in Organizations written by Howard M. Armitage and published by Hamilton, Ont. : Society of Management Accountants of Canada. This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was commissioned by The Society of Management Accountants of Canada to provide CMAs with a better understanding of how productivity is currently measured in a variety of Canadian companies. From this knowledge, it is hoped that CMAs can gain greater insight and motivation in incorporating non-financial performance measurement into the business advice they provide. Companies: J.M. Schneider Inc., Fishery Products International Limited, London Life Insurance Company, Bell Canada and two companies with their names altered, Colt Steel and Modern Motors Limited.
Download or read book The Measurement of Productive Efficiency written by Harold O. Fried and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-04-22 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on measuring and explaining producer performance. The authors view performance as a function of the state of technology and economic efficiency, with the former defining a frontier relation between inputs and outputs; the former incorporating waste and misallocation relative to this frontier. They show that insights can be gained by allowing for the possibility of a divergence between the economic objective and actual performance, and by associating this inefficiency with causal variables subject to managerial or policy influence. Derived from a series of lectures held on techniques and applications of the three approaches to the construction of production frontiers and measure of efficiency, this work will be an essential reference to scholars of a variety of disciplines who are involved with quantitative methods or policy.
Download or read book Concepts and Problems in the Measurement and Analysis of Productivity written by Canada. Interdepartmental Committee on Productivity Analysis and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Productivity and Inequality written by William H. Greene and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Growth written by Harold O. Fried and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harold Fried, et al. published The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications with OUP in 1993, the book received a great deal of professional interest for its accessible treatment of the rapidly growing field of efficiency and productivity analysis. The first several chapters, providing the background, motivation, and theoretical foundations for this topic, were the most widely recognized. In this tight, direct update, these same editors have compiled over ten years of the most recent research in this changing field, and expanded on those seminal chapters. The book will guide readers from the basic models to the latest, cutting-edge extensions, and will be reinforced by references to classic and current theoretical and applied research. It is intended for professors and graduate students in a variety of fields, ranging from economics to agricultural economics, business administration, management science, and public administration. It should also appeal to public servants and policy makers engaged in business performance analysis or regulation.
Download or read book An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis written by Timothy J. Coelli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-07-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Softcover version of the second edition Hardcover. Incorporates a new author, Dr. Chris O'Donnell, who brings considerable expertise to the project in the area of performance measurement. Numerous topics are being added and more applications using real data, as well as exercises at the end of the chapters. Data sets, computer codes and software will be available for download from the web to accompany the volume.
Download or read book Productivity Issues in Services at the Micro Level written by Zvi Griliches and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7 take advantage of the panel structure of their data to control for possible errors of specifica tion in their models. It is interesting to note that the econometric and DEA methods may be closer than some of their respective advocates seem to believe. Several of the studies show that the former as well as the latter can be effectively used to assess the relative effi ciency of groups of firms or individual firms, and one of them explicitly compare results arising from both (Fecher et al.). Econometric techniques can also be nonparametric and applied to estimating cost or production frontiers (and not only "average" functions), while ultimately DEA should be amenable to statistical inference. Perhaps the most valuable feature of all the analyses is their care and ingenuity in putting together the data, measuring variables, and pulling out relevant information. Many of them are not content with an overall output measure, but endeavor to manage with less aggregated measures. Nearly all also include in the estimated models a number of auxiliary variables intended to control for specific attributes of outputs, inputs, or production techniques, and other characteristics of firms.
Download or read book Canadian Manufacturing Volume I written by Uri Zohar and published by Lorimer. This book was released on 1982 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the back cover: VOLUME 1 outlines the study's methodology and considers the explanations that have been proposed for Canada's productivity showdown. The study's data suggest that the decline is attributable more to outdated caiptal equipment than to the commonly cited "slump" in labour productivity. Author Uri Zohar applies the study's findings to the problem of industrial strategy: since the performance of different industries is highly disparate and subject to rapid change, macroeconomic policy is unlikely to be beneficial to all of them at once. A more specialized policy is needed one that backs "winner" industries identified on the basis of productivity measurements and national choices about social and economic development. VOLUME 2 provides the most extensive time-series studies done to date on manufacturing industries. Performance in each of the nineteen industry groups is studied using four production functions that quantify various factors contributing to productivity, and each industry group is compared against a benchmark average for the entire sector.
Download or read book Measurement of Productivity and Efficiency written by Robin C. Sickles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive approach to productivity and efficiency analysis using economic and econometric theory.
