Total factor productivity and efficiency in Australian colleges of advanced education

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Title: Total factor productivity and efficiency in Australian colleges of advanced education
Author(s): Abbott, Malcolm; Doucouliagos, Chris
Abstract: The former colleges of advanced education were an important component of the higher education sector in Australia. Uses the Malmquist total factor productivity index to investigate the efficiency and productivity of Australian colleges of advanced education during the 1980s. The results from this analysis indicate that these colleges recorded modest growth in technical change and total factor productivity, but did not fare all that well in terms of growth in technical and scale efficiency during the 1980s. As a group, however, the former colleges of advanced education had attained high levels of technical and scale efficiency.
Publication type: Journal article
Source: Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 39, no. 4 (2001), pp. 384-393
Publication year: 2001
FOR Code(s): 1303 Specialist Studies in Education
Keyword(s): Australia; Efficiency; Higher education; Productivity
Publisher: Emerald
ISSN: 0957-8234
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000005497
Peer reviewed