Labour-use Efficiency in the Italian Machinery Industry: a Non-parametric Stochastic Frontier Perspective
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Labour-use efficiency; Stochastic frontier; SMEs; GAM; Splines;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C1 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
- C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
- H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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