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Projection pursuit regression and disaggregate productivity effects: the case of the Indian blast furnaces

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  • Sanghamitra Das

    (Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, India)

  • Ramprasad Sengupta

    (Centre of Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)

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Productivity of blast furnaces in India is studied by disaggregating the production process and the utilization process. A dimension-reducing nonparametric approach-projection pursuit regression-is used. We find that productivity can be increased significantly by improving the quality of coal. There is no evidence that executives have a positive marginal product. The production workers have a negative marginal product for the production process and a positive one for the utilization process. But the training of executives has a positive effect whereas that of the production workers has a negative effect on productivity. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Sanghamitra Das & Ramprasad Sengupta, 2004. "Projection pursuit regression and disaggregate productivity effects: the case of the Indian blast furnaces," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 19(3), pages 397-418.
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    DOI: 10.1002/jae.756
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