Productivity growth in natural resource industries and the environment: an application to the Korean tuna purse-seine fleet in the Pacific Ocean

Dale Squires, Christopher Reid and Yongil Jeon

International Economic Journal, 2008, vol. 22, issue 1, pages 81-93

Abstract: Measures of multifactor productivity growth in natural resource industries are misleading without accounting for the effects on the environment. This paper introduces environmental effects into an output-oriented Malmquist index of multifactor productivity growth in order to evaluate growth in productivity and technical efficiency for Korean purse seine vessels fishing for tuna in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean.

Keywords: productivity; technical change; environment; natural resources; Malmquist index; Pacific tuna fisheries; Korea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008

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