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| Volume 1, No. 3,
December 2002
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Productivity
Change in the Telecommunications Industries of 13 OECD Countries |
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| Armando Calabrese, Domenico Campisi,
and Paolo Mancuso |
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Dipartimento Informatica
Sistemi e Produzione, Universita degli Studi di |
| Roma, Italy |
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| Abstract |
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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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Key words:
labor productivity; total factor productivity; data envelopment |
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analysis;
convergence |
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classification:
D24 |
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