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Productivity Change in the Telecommunications Industries of 13 OECD Countries

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  • Armando Calabrese

    (Dipartimento Informatica Sistemi e Produzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma, Italy)

  • Domenico Campisi

    (Dipartimento Informatica Sistemi e Produzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma, Italy)

  • Paolo Mancuso

    (Dipartimento Informatica Sistemi e Produzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma, Italy)

Abstract

This paper focuses on the evolution of productivity in the telecommunications industries for 13 OECD countries over the period 1979-1998. It uses Data Envelopment Analysis, a non-parametric approach that allows decompositions of changes in productivity into varia-tions in efficiency and technical change. Moreover, it tests the existence of convergence in labor and total factor productivity levels among the 13 OECD countries by means of a cross-section technique.

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  • Armando Calabrese & Domenico Campisi & Paolo Mancuso, 2002. "Productivity Change in the Telecommunications Industries of 13 OECD Countries," International Journal of Business and Economics, School of Management Development, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, vol. 1(3), pages 209-223, December.
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    Keywords

    labor productivity; total factor productivity; data envelopment analysis; convergence;
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    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity

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