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Productivity; technical and scale efficiency; technological progress; Malmquist indices; universities
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Efficiency, Technology And Productivity Change In Australian Universities, 1998-2003, A. C. Worthington, B. L. Lee
Efficiency, Technology And Productivity Change In Australian Universities, 1998-2003, A. C. Worthington, B. L. Lee
Faculty of Business - Accounting & Finance Working Papers
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. …