Productivity Performance of Singapore’s Retail Sector: A Two-Stage Non-Parametric Approach

Labor Productivity Growth in the Kansas Farm Sector: A Tripartite Decomposition Using a Non-Parametric Approach

We use nonparametric production function methods to decompose farm-level labor productivity growth into components attributable to efficiency change, technical change, and factor intensity. The estimation is accomplished using balanced panel data drawn from the Kansas Farm Management Association for the period 1993 to 2007. We find that labor productivity growth is primarily driven by factor in...

Two stage non-parametric approach for small area estimation

Small area estimators commonly borrow strength from other related areas. These indirect estimators use models (explicit or implicit) that relate the small areas through supplementary data. Various unit-level and area-level small area models are proposed in the literature, but all these models assume the small area mean is linearly related with supplementary information. In this article, we prop...

Presenting a Hybrid Approach based on Two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis to Evaluating Organization Productivity

   Measuring the performance of a production system has been an important task in management for purposes of control, planning, etc. Lord Kelvin said :“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.” Hence, manag...

Productivity Changes Of Food Processing Industries In Provinces Of Iran; 1992- 2001 A Non-Parametric Malmquist Approach

Benchmarking Website Performance in the Public Sector: A Non Parametric Approach

In this paper the outcome of a benchmarking study that compares organization websites in the public sector is presented. In particular, 31 websites of Italian public universities are compared considering the website cognitive efficiency as a measure of its overall performance, i.e. usability and accessibility. Data Envelopment Analysis is performed to generate a measurement for the cognitive ef...