freidoon salimi; Teimour Mohammadi; JAMSHID PZHOYAN; farhad ghaffari
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The aim of this paper is to study the technical, scale and technological efficiencies and also the changes in Partial and total factor productivities of provincial centers of Islamic Azad University. The methods used are DEA, Malmquist Index and a new approached known as truncated bootstrapped regression. ...
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The aim of this paper is to study the technical, scale and technological efficiencies and also the changes in Partial and total factor productivities of provincial centers of Islamic Azad University. The methods used are DEA, Malmquist Index and a new approached known as truncated bootstrapped regression. The results indicate that out of 30 units of centers in the study, only 3 units are Fully efficient: Kermanshah, central Tehran and Yazd. For the periods under study (2010 and 2016), the productivity growths for all units have been positive and 18 units had TFP changes greater than one. The study revealed that environmental factors have effects on efficiency and productivity. Specifically, one percent increase in the ratio of the number ofthe professors and associate professors to total members will increase the efficiency by a factor of 0.89 percent. An increase in the age of unit and being in the metropolitan area increase the efficiency by the amount of 0.04 and 0.01 percent respectively.
seyed komail tayebi; Shirin Arbabian
Volume 5, Issue 16 , October 2003, , Pages 1-22
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Technology and scientific knowledge developed by higher education play imperative role in the production process of manufacturing goods. Labor forces، in a higher level of education، are able to cause technological changes by which significant rises are occurred in commodity exporting capacity and ...
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Technology and scientific knowledge developed by higher education play imperative role in the production process of manufacturing goods. Labor forces، in a higher level of education، are able to cause technological changes by which significant rises are occurred in commodity exporting capacity and competitive ability in international markets. The present paper investigates the impact of higher education on Iran’s manufacturing exports، and it tests the hypothesis that improvement in higher education، particularly in long run، can influence positively the non-oil export supply. Specifying an empirical framework and then using data for the period 1966–1999، we employ the Johansen – Juselius co-integration method and Error Correction Model (ECM) to estimate، respectively، long-run and short-run determinants of Iran’s manufacturing export supply. Overall، estimation results obtained reveal the fact that there is a substantial significant flexibility of higher education coefficient in the long-run export model، whereas the correspondent short-run coefficient is not statistically significant. The implication is that the policy makers should consider enhancement in higher education as the human capital role in the promotion of Iranian non-oil exports.