Productivity and Inequality

Chapter 1. Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model with Application to Highway Maintenance Costs in England.- Chapter 2. Alternative User Costs, Productivity and Inequality in US Business Sectors.- Chapter 3. On the Allocation of Productivity Growth and the Determinants of US Income Inequality.- Chapter 4. Frontier Estimation of a Cost Function System Model with Local Least Squares: An Application to Dutch Secondary Education.- Chapter 5. Aggregate Productivity and Productivity of the Aggregate: Connecting the Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches.- Chapter 6. Confidence Sets for Inequality Measures: Fieller-type Methods.- Chapter 7. Poverty-Dominant Marginal Transfer Reforms in Socially Risky Situations.- Chapter 8. Exploring the Covariance Term in the Olley-Pakes Productivity Decomposition.- Chapter 9. The Decline of Manufacturing in Canada: Resource Curse, Productivity Malaise or Natural Evolution?.- Chapter 10. Flexible Functional Forms and Curvature Conditions: Parametric Productivity Estimation in Canadian and US Manufacturing Industries.- Chapter 11. Productivity Growth, Poverty Reduction and Income inequality: New Empirical Evidence.- Chapter 12. Contribution of Productivity and Price Change to Farm-level Profitability: A Dual Approach Analysis of Crop Production in Norway.- Chapter 13. Estimation of Health Care Demand and its Implication on Income Effects of Individuals.- Chapter 14. Quantile DEA: Estimating qDEA-alpha Efficiency Estimates with Conventional Linear Programming.