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....
This book presents a set of papers from the leading edge of current research on productivity analysis. The focus is on alternative forms of measuremen...