Standard neo-classical trade theory predicts that trade liberalisation should cause a fall in wage inequality in developing countries through a decrease in the relative demand for skilled labour. Recent studies of a number of developing countries, however, find evidence to the contrary. Using a panel of manufacturing firms in the 1990s we investigate whether skill-biased technological change in...

This paper decomposes the Malmquist productivity index into several assembling components: technical change (further break down into technical change magnitude, input bias and output bias), technical efficiency change, scale efficiency change, and output-mix effect. A translog output distance function is chosen to represent the production technology and each component of the Malmquist index is ...

The United States paper and paperboard industry has experienced significant structural changes over the past twenty-five years, including reductions in the number of mills, lower rates of capacity growth, employment cutbacks, and a loss of market share to foreign competitors. These structural shifts portray an industry that increasingly has difficulty adapting to a more competitive global envir...

This paper introduces a publicly available database of recorded translation sessions for Translation Process Research (TPR). User activity data (UAD) of translators behavior was collected over the past 5 years in several translation studies with Translog 1 , a data acquisition software which logs keystrokes and gaze data during text reception and production. The database compiles this data into...

The current study deals with the technical efficiency of cotton farmers operating on Harran Plain Turkiye an application to two well-known stochastic approaches, i.e., Cobb-Douglas and translog frontier production functions. Using farm-level cross-sectional data, a specialized maximum likelihood technique incorporates both frontiers inefficiency effects models into single equation model estimat...

Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission of the Executive Yuan promulgated fully amended Certified Public Accountant Act in 2007, which directly led to significant changes accounting law. From perspective economic theory law, this study investigates amendment resulting an increase or decrease overall revenue and different shares firms, puts forward measures that should be taken by firms stakeh...

Abstract In the economics literature, measuring performance of a dairy farm with total productivity index is common practice. Previous research, on other hand, has been chastised for failing to account agricultural emissions in their models when calculating resource use productivity. This study estimated green factor (GTFP) accounting farms' CH4 emission model. The based unbalanced panel data f...