Labour‐use efficiency in Swedish social insurance offices
瑞典社会保险办事机构的劳动使用效率
Abstract This paper considers the estimation of frontier production functions in panel data models. It proposes a multi‐stage method to obtain estimates of (1) the parameters of a flexible input requirement function and (2) technical inefficiency decomposed into time‐invariant (firm‐specific), time‐varying, and the residual components. The proposed method is used to analyse labour‐use efficiency of Swedish local social insurance offices on the basis of a large panel of…