Are Asian technology gaps due to human capital quality differences?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.06.032
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Technical efficiency; Technological change; Productivity growth; Asia; Metafrontier; Technology gap; Human capital; DEA; Malmquist productivity index;All these keywords.
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