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Efficiency and productive specialization: an application to Spanish regions
José Manuel PastorJoaqui  N MaudosLorenzo Serranosubject
Labour economicsSpecialization (functional)EconomicsData envelopment analysisGeneral Social SciencesProduction (economics)Convergence (economics)ProductivityIndustrial organizationGeneral Environmental Sciencedescription
MAUDOS J., PASTOR J. M. and SERRANO L. (2000) Efficiency and productive specialization: an application to the Spanish regions, Reg. Studies 34, 829-842. This paper shows the importance of the composition of production (productive specialization) and sector inefficiencies when evaluating efficiency in aggregate production. For this purpose, a new approach is proposed for obtaining efficiency scores which enables two components to be differentiated: one associated with the degree of efficiency within each sector (intra-sector efficiency); and another associated with the composition of production (composition efficiency). The application of this approach and its breakdown for the Spanish regions in the period 1964-93, using a non-parametric approach (data envelopment analysis), shows greater gains in composition efficiency as a consequence of the structural changes in productive specialization. Also, the breakdown of labour productivity convergence shows the increasing importance over time of composition eff...
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| 2000-12-01 |