Technical efficiency and technological change in Malaysian service industries
- 26 June 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Applied Economics Letters
- Vol. 15 (8), 655-657
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13504850600721932
Abstract
This article examines the total factor productivity (TFP) growth by decomposing it into technical efficiency and technological change for the 20 service industries in a developing country – Malaysia from 1987 to 1992. On average, the TFP growth of the service industries experienced positive TFP growth of 1.8%. The contributing factors for TFP growth was technical efficiency while technological regress was found to dampen the TFP progress.Keywords
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