Measuring Labor-Efficiency in Post Offices

Dominique Deprins, Leopold Simar and Henry Tulkens
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Dominique Deprins: Facultés Universitaires Saint Louis

Chapter Chapter 13 in Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition, 2006, pp 285-309 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Three methods of measuring technical efficiency are defined, and their results compared in an application to Belgian postal data. The first one is that of adjusting a Cobb-Douglas production frontier; the second is that of computing the convex hull of the data, à la Farrell; the third one is developed on the basis of the sole assumptions of input and output disposability. We conclude with an estimated average labor-efficiency of about 90%.

Keywords: Public Good; Post Office; Public Enterprise; Delivery Activity; Free Disposability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-25534-7_16

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