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Efficiency, Technology And Productivity Change In Australian Universities, 1998-2003, A. C. Worthington, Boon L. Lee Jun 2005

Efficiency, Technology And Productivity Change In Australian Universities, 1998-2003, A. C. Worthington, Boon L. Lee

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

In this study, productivity growth in thirty-five Australian universities is investigated using nonparametric frontier techniques over the period 1998 to 2003. The inputs included in the analysis are full-time equivalent academic and non-academic staff, non-labour expenditure and undergraduate and postgraduate student load and the outputs are undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD completions, national competitive and industry grants and publications. Using Malmquist indices, productivity growth is decomposed into technical efficiency and technological change. The results indicate that annual productivity growth averaged 3.3 percent across all universities, with a range between -1.8 percent and 13.0 percent, and was largely attributable to technological progress. …


Efficiency, Technology And Productivity Change In Australian Universities, 1998-2003, A. C. Worthington, Boon L. Lee Jun 2005

Efficiency, Technology And Productivity Change In Australian Universities, 1998-2003, A. C. Worthington, Boon L. Lee

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

In this study, productivity growth in thirty-five Australian universities is investigated using nonparametric frontier techniques over the period 1998 to 2003. The inputs included in the analysis are full-time equivalent academic and non-academic staff, non-labour expenditure and undergraduate and postgraduate student load and the outputs are undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD completions, national competitive and industry grants and publications. Using Malmquist indices, productivity growth is decomposed into technical efficiency and technological change. The results indicate that annual productivity growth averaged 3.3 percent across all universities, with a range between -1.8 percent and 13.0 percent, and was largely attributable to technological progress. …


Ranking Australian Economics Departments By Research Productivity, Frank V. Neri, Joan R. Rodgers Jan 2005

Ranking Australian Economics Departments By Research Productivity, Frank V. Neri, Joan R. Rodgers

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This study ranks Australian economics departments according to the average research productivity of their academic staff during 1996-2002. It also ranks departments according to the variability of research productivity among their members, the assumption being that, ceteris paribus, the less variable is productivity within a department, the better. Research productivity is found to be highly skewed within all departments. A few departments have high average research productivity because of just one or two highly productive members. However, in general, research productivity is more evenly distributed within those departments that have relatively high average research productivity than within departments with relatively …