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Measurement Issues and Behavior of Productivity Variables

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Ali Dogramaci

    1. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Productivity Analysis (SPAN, volume 8)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Measuring Technical Efficiency: A Comparison of Alternative Methodologies with Census Data

    • Vittorio Corbo, Jaime de Melo
    Pages 1-39

  3. Changes in the U.K. Male Labor Force in the Postwar Period

    • M. Hashem Pesaran, Roger Tarling
    Pages 41-97

  4. The Theory and Measurement of the Rental Price of Capital in Industry-Specific Productivity Analysis: A Vintage Rental Price of Capital Model

    • Michael F. Mohr
    Pages 99-159

  5. The Role of Capital in U.S. Economic Growth, 1948–1979

    • Barbara M. Fraumeni, Dale W. Jorgenson
    Pages 161-244

  6. The Systematic Behavior of Service Prices and Productivity in Different Countries

    • Irving B. Kravis, Alan W. Heston, Robert Summers
    Pages 245-257

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 258-262
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About this book

This book presents a set of papers from the leading edge of current research on productivity analysis. The focus is on alternative forms of measurement, methods, and their implications. The book begins with a chapter by V. Corbo and J. de Melo comparing the effects of using different production frontier models for measuring technical efficiency when using census data. The second chapter (by H. Pesaran and R. Tarling) is a detailed analysi·s of measurement of labor and its variations over time. The next two chapters concern the measurement of capital. The first of these is written by M. F. Mohr; the second is by B. M. Fraumeni and D. W. Jorgenson. The final chapter is by I. B. Kravis, A. W. Heston, and R. Summers and concerns the behavior of productivity and service prices. Decisions for improving productivity rely upon explicit as well as implicit assumptions on how productivity is related to a variety of factors. Determining the right relationships hinges on how these factors are measured and how the models are set. This is why better understanding of measurement issues and behavior of variables related to productivity can lead more effective policies. We plan to continue in this series to present the current research of major different schools of thought in the field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

    Ali Dogramaci

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Measurement Issues and Behavior of Productivity Variables

  • Editors: Ali Dogramaci

  • Series Title: Studies in Productivity Analysis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6867-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89838-171-9Published: 31 July 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-015-6869-2Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-6867-8Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 262

  • Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory

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