Economies of Scale and Efficiency Measurement in Switzerland’s Nursing Homes
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Economies of Scale and Efficiency Measurement in Switzerland’s Nursing Homes
This paper examines the cost efficiency in the nursing home industry, an issue of concern to Swiss policy makers because of the explosive growth of national expenditure on elderly care and the aging of the population. A stochastic cost frontier model with a translog function has been applied to a balanced panel data of 1780 observations from 356 nursing homes operating over five years (1998-200...
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عنوان ژورنال: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 2235-6282
DOI: 10.1007/bf03399259