Efficiency and productivity

HO Fried, CAK Lovell, SS Schmidt - The measurement of …, 2008 - books.google.com
Airlines in the United States have encountered difficulties since September 11, 2001,
particularly on domestic routes. Figure 1.1 plots quarterly operating profit margins (profit from …

Identifying factors influencing the forestry production efficiency in Northwest China

L Xiong, F Wang, B Cheng, C Yu - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2018 - Elsevier
Forestry industry has realized a rapid development in China due to the domestic and
international demand for forestry products. Considering the conservation of forest ecology …

Regional dependencies in job creation: an efficiency analysis for Western Germany

R Fahr, U Sunde - Applied Economics, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates the efficiency of the matching process between job seekers and
vacancy posting firms in West Germany, using variation across labour market regions and …

Regional labour market matching functions and efficiency analysis

P Ilmakunnas, H Pesola - Labour, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Stochastic production frontiers are used for estimating regional matching functions where
unemployment outflow is 'produced'by the unemployed and vacancies. The frontier is …

Matching efficiency and labour market reform in Italy: A macroeconometric assessment

S Destefanis, R Fonseca - Labour, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A matching theory approach is used to assess the impact on the Italian labour market of the
1997 Treu Act (legge Treu), which considerably eased the regulation of temporary work and …

Matching and settlement patterns: The case of Norway

M Moilanen - Papers in Regional Science, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This paper estimates the matching of job seekers and vacant jobs in Norwegian regional
labour markets. The main goal of the study is to analyse whether differing settlement …

Does population density matter in the process of matching heterogeneous job seekers and vacancies?

SM Hynninen, J Lahtonen - Empirica, 2007 - Springer
This paper studies the matching of job seekers and vacant jobs using data on local labour
markets. We estimate differences in the ability of the local markets to form new matches and …

Effects of region-specific shocks on labor market tightness and matching efficiency: evidence from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Japan

Y Higashi - The Annals of Regional Science, 2020 - Springer
This paper examines whether region-specific shocks alter regional labor market tightness
and matching efficiencies. We adopt the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011, which …

Do regions benefit from active labour market policies? A macroeconometric evaluation using spatial panel methods

W Dauth, R Hujer, K Wolf - Regional Studies, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Dauth W., Hujer R. and Wolf K. Do regions benefit from active labour market policies? A
macroeconometric evaluation using spatial panel methods, Regional Studies. The effect of …

Structural unemployment in Croatia–How important is the occupational mismatch?

I Tomić - Economic research-Ekonomska istraživanja, 2014 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak This article studies the importance of structural unemployment in the Croatian
labour market via occupational mismatch between vacancies and unemployment in the …