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标题：Labour efficiency in construction industry in Europe based on frontier methods: data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis
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作者：Joanicjusz Nazarko ; Ewa Chodakowska
期刊名称：Journal of Civil Engineering and Management
印刷版ISSN：1392-3730
出版年度：2017
卷号：23
期号：6
DOI：10.3846/13923730.2017.1321577
语种：English
出版社：Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
摘要：The primary problems pertaining to productivity or – more precisely – efficiency are: how to define it and how to measure it. This article studies technical efficiency in Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) – the input-oriented frontier model – in the construction industry and compares it with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) results. The models explored in this paper were constructed on the basis of two outputs and personnel cost as an input. The research sample consisted of European countries. The aim was to determine whether there are substantial differences in estimation of efficiency derived from those two alternative frontier approaches. The comparison of results according to the models may translate into higher reliability of the undertaken labour efficiency analysis in construction and its conclusions. Although the results are not characterized by high compatibility, the conducted analysis indicated the most attractive countries taking into account labour cost to profit and turnover ratios of enterprises. One of the determinants which should not be ignored when analysing the labour efficiency is the level of development of a country; however, it is not the sole factor affecting the efficiency of the sector.