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Production of written French skills by first generation immigrants in working age

2013

This paper aims to identify factors explaining the level of proficiency in written French by immigrants in working age, knowing that few research has been conducted in France on this issue. The originality of this paper is the stochastic production frontier model to explain the scores in written French and the productive performance of immigrants (considered as producers of their own skills). The main results show that mother tongue, age at immigration, social life and mother's diploma are elements which influence the effectiveness of this production. They play a crucial role in the ability of immigrants to use effectively their duration of stay in France and their length of education, cons…

Social factorLearning foreign languages[SHS.EDU]Humanities and Social Sciences/EducationSkillsFacteur social[SHS.EDU] Humanities and Social Sciences/EducationForeign languages[ SHS.EDU ] Humanities and Social Sciences/EducationLangues étrangèresFrench foreign languageNiveau de compétencesModèle économiqueFrançais langue étrangèreEfficacité de l'enseignementTeaching effectivenessEvaluation des performancesApprentissage des langues étrangèresPerformance evaluationÉcritEconomic modelProduction frontierFrontière de productionAcquisition de compétencesskill levelimmigration
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Assessment of tourism competitiveness by analysing destination efficiency

2013

destination efficiencyData envelopment analysisDestination competitiveneEconomic efficiency analysiStochastic production frontier
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ASSESSMENT OF TOURISM COMPETITIVENESS BY ANALYSING DESTINATION EFFICIENCY

2008

The notion and measurement of destination competitiveness have received increasing attention in the economics literature on tourism. The reason for this emerges from both the growing economic importance of the tourist sector and the increasing competition in the tourist market resulting from the transition from mass tourism to a new age of tourism that calls for a tailor-made approach to the specific attitudes and needs of tourists. The central subject of this paper – inspired by the conceptual competitiveness model developed by Crouch and Ritchie – concerns the efficiency of tourist site destinations. Using a data set of 103 Italian regions for 2001, an economic efficiency analysis is car…

Economic efficiencyGeography Planning and DevelopmentSTOCHASTIC PRODUCTION FRONTIERDATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSISDestinationsProduction–possibility frontierTerms of tradeCompetition (economics)DESTINATION COMPETITIVENESSEconomyTourism Leisure and Hospitality ManagementDESTINATION EFFICIENCYSettore SECS-S/03 - Statistica EconomicaEconomicsData envelopment analysisProduction (economics)Industrial organizationTourismECONOMIC EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS
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