Measuring Labor-Efficiency in Post Offices

By D. Deprins, Léopold Simar, Henry Tulkens. 2006

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Media Technology, Strategy and Management

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Technical Efficiency of the Brazilian Municipalities: Correcting Nonparametric Frontier Measurements for Outliers (2005, methodology): “Non-parametric efficiency measurement methods such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) [1-4] and Free Disposal Hull (FDH) [5-7] have been widely applied in different contexts including the computation of cost-efficient frontiers for local governments [7-9].”
What explains the performance of students in a heterogeneous environment? Conditional efficiency estimation with continuous and discrete environmental variables (2013, neutral): “E-mail: kristof.dewitte@econ.kuleuven.be Applied Economics ISSN 0003–6846 print/ISSN 1466–4283 online 2013 Taylor & Francis 2401 http://www.tandfonline.com http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2012.665602 Deprins et al., 1984).”
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Value for money? German local government efficiency in a comparative perspective (2011, methodology): “In nonparametric approaches such as DEA (Farrell, 1957 ) or FDH (Deprins et al , 1984 ), the frontier is created as a piecewise linear envelopment of the data.”
Non-parametric Approaches to Education and Health Expenditure Efficiency in OECD Countries (2004, methodology): “We apply a so-called FDH analysis, which is a non-parametric technique first proposed by Deprins, Simar, and Tulkens (1984).”
Frontier Efficiency Methodologies to Measure Performance in the Insurance Industry: Overview, Systematization, and Recent Developments (2010, background): “(2008) and Diacon et al. (2002)—or consider relatively small datasets—such as Rai (1996), which covers only 106 companies in 11 countries.”
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