The competitiveness and development strategies of provinces in China: a data envelopment analysis approach

Inequality convergence in inefficiency and interprovincial income inequality in Indonesia for 1990–2010

“…Originally, DEA was used in productivity analysis at the micro level, but it has recently become increasingly popular at the macro level as a non-parametric alternative to growth accounting (Enflo and Hjertstrand 2009). Charnes et al (1989) applied this technique to regional economic performance analysis, evaluating relative efficiency in terms of economic Ezcurra and Iraizoz 2009;Olaskoaga-Larrauri et al 2011;Li and Zhao 2015;Li and Dewan 2017). Some studies, such as Ezcurra and Iraizoz (2009) and Li and Zhao (2015), incorporate efficiency factors to the inequality decomposition of economic performance.…”

“…Charnes et al (1989) applied this technique to regional economic performance analysis, evaluating relative efficiency in terms of economic Ezcurra and Iraizoz 2009;Olaskoaga-Larrauri et al 2011;Li and Zhao 2015;Li and Dewan 2017). Some studies, such as Ezcurra and Iraizoz (2009) and Li and Zhao (2015), incorporate efficiency factors to the inequality decomposition of economic performance. Ezcurra and Iraizoz (2009) Cheng and Li's (2006) technique to examine regional disparities in efficiency changes over time in European regions; however, they do not explore this empirically in their study.…”

Measuring and explaining organizational effectiveness of school districts: Evidence from a robust and conditional Benefit-of-the-Doubt approach

“…It was originally proposed by Thompson et al (1986), and Adolphson, Cornia, & Walters (1991), coined the term 'Benefit-of-the-Doubt' by Melyn & Moesen (1991) who applied the method to obtain an indicator of macroeconomic performance, and subsequently formalized under a DEA framework by Lovell and Pastor (1999). In 2008, this approach was suggested by the OECD as a method to construct composite indicators (OECD, 2008), spurring many applications in different fields: among others, in bibliometrics (García-Romero, Santín, & Sicilia, 2016), health care (Shwartz, Burgess, & Zhu, 2016), competitiveness (Li & Zhao, 2015), police effectiveness (Verschelde & Rogge, 2012), and energy (Zanella, Camanho, & Dias, 2015).…”

Interprovincial differences in labour force distribution and utilization based on educational attainment in Indonesia, 2002–2015

“…Various inequality decomposition studies apply Cheng and Li () method (Alcalde‐Unzu, Ezcurra, & Pascual, ; Kataoka, ; Li & Dewan, ; Li & Zhao, ; Olaskoaga‐Larrauri, Alaez‐Aller, & Arrospide‐Zabala, ) and some have extensively adopted the inequality decomposition of social welfare expenditure without incorporating efficiency factors (for a brief summary, see Kataoka, ). Our study decomposes an employment variable by educational attainment per capita to provide new interpretations.…”