The contribution of physical and human capital accumulation to Italian regional growth: a nonparametric perspective

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• 作者：Simone Gitto (1)
  Paolo Mancuso (1)
  
  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell鈥橧mpresa ; Universit脿 di Roma 鈥淭or Vergata鈥? via del Politecnico 1 ; 00133 ; Rome ; Italy
  
• 关键词：Total factor productivity (TFP) ; Regional convergence ; Human capital ; Bootstrap ; Data envelopment analysis (DEA) ; Italian regions ; C14 ; 047 ; R11
• 刊名：Journal of Productivity Analysis
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：February 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：43
• 期：1
• 页码：1-12
• 全文大小：624 KB
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• 刊物类别：Business and Economics
• 刊物主题：Economics
  Microeconomics
  Econometrics
  Operation Research and Decision Theory
  Accounting and Auditing
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0441

文摘

This paper examines changes in the labor productivity, efficiency, technology, and physical and human capital experienced by different regions in Italy between 1980 and 2006. Cobb-Douglas and translog production specifications are not supported by the data. Thus, non-parametric methods are used to compute the Malmquist indices and their components. Moreover, the bootstrap technique allows us to determine the confidence intervals of all components of the labor productivity decomposition. The results suggest that the contributions of efficiency, technology, and physical and human capital accumulation to labor productivity growth differ significantly between Southern Italy and the remainder of the country.