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Resources and functionings: a new view of inequality in australia
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The degree of inequality in the levels of well-being of its citizens tells us a great deal about a society and enables us to judge its social and economic system, identify those citizens with a claim on community compassion, to identify the sources of hardship, and to devise strategies for reducing levels of hardship.Abstract:
The degree of inequality in the levels of well-being of its citizens tells us a great deal about a society It enables us to judge its social and economic system, to identify those citizens with a claim on community compassion, to identify the sources of hardship, and to devise strategies for reducing levels of hardship The value of such information is undoubted But we confront a severe practical problem in first defining, and then measuring, what we mean by well-being It is surely multi-dimensional, and difficult to reduce to a scalar-valued indexread more
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Technical efficiency of European railways: a distance function approach
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the performance of European railways using corrected ordinary least squares (COLS) distance functions and showed the usefulness of econometric distance functions in the analysis of production in multi-output industries.
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Institutional quality, green innovation and energy efficiency
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Measuring Multidimensional Poverty: An Empirical Comparison of Various Approaches
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Efficiency in New Zealand Sheep and Beef Farming: The Impacts of Regulatory Reform
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Decomposition of Productivity Growth Using Distance Functions: The Case of Dairy Farms in Three European Countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate stochastic translog output distance functions using panel data from dairy farms over the period 1991-94 for three European countries (Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland).
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Maximum likelihood estimation of econometric frontier functions
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