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Is the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis Valid for Developing Countries? Evidence from the Turkish Cement Industry

The efficiency wage hypothesis is tested by using one of the recently developed methods to measure technical efficiency. We use panel data on 40 Turkish cement plants for the period 1980-1995. The predictions of the efficiency wage hypothesis are tested in two ways: estimation of wage augmented production frontiers and the simultaneous estimation of a production function together with inefficiency effects. Our empirical analysis shows that the wage level is one of the significant factors contributing to the output and technical efficiency of plants in the cement industry in Turkey.

Language: Englisch

Bibliographic citation: Series: Department of Economics Discussion Paper ; No. 9810

Classification: Wirtschaft
Hypothesis Testing: General
Estimation: General
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Truncated and Censored Models; Switching Regression Models; Threshold Regression Models
Labor Contracts

Subject: Efficiency Wage
Stochastic Production Function with Composed Errors
Technical Efficiency
Effizienzlohn
Schätzung
Zementindustrie
Türkei

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Saygili, Seref

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): University of Kent, Department of Economics

(where): Canterbury

(when): 1998

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/105514

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Saygili, Seref
University of Kent, Department of Economics

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1998

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