Productivity and Inequality. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: William H. Greene, Lynda Khalaf, Paul Makdissi, Robin C. Sickles, Michael Veall, Marcel-Cristian Voia, editors.
• Editors: Greene, William H, 1951-
• Other Names: North American Productivity Workshop, 9th
• Contents: Intro; Introduction; Contents; Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model with Application to Highway Maintenance Costs in England; 1 Introduction; 2 Literature Review: Potential Approaches to Dealing with Outliers; 2.1 Adopting Alternative Predictors for Inefficiency; 2.2 Heteroskedastic Stochastic Frontier Models; 2.3 Thick Frontier Analysis; 2.4 Non-Gaussian Stochastic Frontier Models; 3 The Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model; 3.1 Formulation and Estimation; 3.2 Efficiency Predictions. 4 Application to Highways Maintenance Costs in England5 Summary and Conclusions; References; Alternative User Costs, Productivity and Inequality in US Business Sectors; 1 Introduction; 2 The Accounting Framework, User Costs and Rates of Return on Assets; 3 Real Wages and Labour Productivity Growth in Sectors 1 and 2; 4 Capital Stocks and Capital Output Ratios for Sectors 1 and 2; 5 Balancing Rates of Return and Alternative User Costs for Sectors 1 and 2; 6 Jorgensonian and Predicted Measures of Capital Services and Total Factor Productivity Growth. 7 Rates of Return and TFP Growth in Sector 1 with Alternative Asset Bases8 Rates of Return and TFP Growth in Sector 2 with Alternative Asset Bases; 9 Changing Shares and Inequality; 10 Conclusions; References; On the Allocation of Productivity Growth and the Determinants of U.S. Income Inequality; 1 Introduction; 2 Literature Review; 2.1 Technology; 2.2 Executive Compensation and Financial-Sector Pay; 2.3 Workplace Heterogeneity; 2.4 Education; 2.5 Race; 2.6 Gender; 2.7 Marriage; 3 Decomposition Methods; 3.1 By Subgroups; 3.2 By Income Sources. 3.3 By Factor Components (Regression-Based Decomposition)4 Data; 5 Empirical Methodology; 5.1 Decomposition by Subgroups; 5.2 Decomposition by Income Sources; 5.3 Decomposition by Factor Components (Regression-Based Decomposition); 6 Results; 6.1 Decomposition by Subgroup; 6.2 Decomposition by Income Sources; 6.3 Decomposition by Factor Component (Regression-Based Decomposition); 7 Conclusion; Appendix; Regression Results and Descriptive Statistics For 1985, 1990, 1995, 1999, 2005, 2009, 2013; References. Frontier Estimation of a Cost Function System Model with Local Least Squares: An Application to Dutch Secondary Education1 Introduction; 2 Methodology; 3 Data; 3.1 Production; 3.2 The Resources; 3.3 Resource Prices; 3.4 Data Resources, Data Checks and Manipulations; 3.5 Data Checks and Manipulations; 3.6 Secondary Education Statistics; 4 Results; 5 Conclusion; References; Aggregate Productivity and Productivity of the Aggregate: Connecting the Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches; 1 Introduction; 2 Accounting Framework; 3 Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches Connected.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (338 pages)
• Subjects: 338.06; Business; Industrial productivity -- Congresses; Income distribution -- Congresses; Management science; Operations research; Econometrics; Public administration; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General; Income distribution; Industrial productivity; Business & Economics -- Econometrics; Law -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Econometrics; Public administration; Business & Economics -- Operations Research; Operational research; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319686783; 3319686771; 9783319686776
• Related ISBNs: 331968678X; 3319686771; 9783319686776
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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