Productivity and Inequality

1. Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model with Application to Highway Maintenance Costs in England
Alexander D. Stead, Phill Wheat, William H. Greene

2. Alternative User Costs, Productivity and Inequality in US Business Sectors
W. Erwin Diewert, Kevin J. Fox

3. On the Allocation of Productivity Growth and the Determinants of U. S. Income Inequality
Shasha Liu, Robin C. Sickles, Shiyi Zhang

4. Frontier Estimation of a Cost Function System Model with Local Least Squares: An Application to Dutch Secondary Education
Jos L. T. Blank

5. Aggregate Productivity and Productivity of the Aggregate: Connecting the Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches
Bert M. Balk

6. Confidence Sets for Inequality Measures: Fieller-Type Methods
Jean-Marie Dufour, Emmanuel Flachaire, Lynda Khalaf, Abdallah Zalghout

7. Poverty-Dominant Marginal Transfer Reforms in Socially Risky Situations
Paul Makdissi, Quentin Wodon

8. Exploring the Covariance Term in the Olley-Pakes Productivity Decomposition
Giannis Karagiannis, Suzanna M. Paleologou

9. The Decline of Manufacturing in Canada: Resource Curse, Productivity Malaise or Natural Evolution?
Robert Petrunia, Livio Di Matteo

10. Flexible Functional Forms and Curvature Conditions: Parametric Productivity Estimation in Canadian and U.S. Manufacturing Industries
Jakir Hussain, Jean-Thomas Bernard

11. Productivity Growth, Poverty Reduction and Income Inequality: New Empirical Evidence
Mahamat Hamit-Haggar, Malick Souare

12. The Contribution of Productivity and Price Change to Farm-level Profitability: A Dual Approach Analysis of Crop Production in Norway
Habtamu Alem

13. Estimation of Health Care Demand and its Implication on Income Effects of Individuals
Hossein Kavand, Marcel Voia

14. Quantile DEA: Estimating qDEA-alpha Efficiency Estimates with Conventional Linear Programming
Joseph A. Atwood, Saleem Shaik

Keywords: Business and Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Econometrics, Public Administration