Browsing by Author "Jaforullah, Mohammad"
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Explaining efficiency differences of New Zealand secondary schools
Alexander, W Robert J; Jaforullah, MohammadThe New Zealand Secondary School system is characterized by centrally provided government funding for almost all schools, yet responsibility for use of that funding has been devolved right down to the school level. The ... -
International tourism and economic growth in New Zealand
Jaforullah, MohammadThis paper examines whether the tourism-led growth hypothesis holds for the New Zealand economy. Using unit root tests, cointegration tests and vector error correction models, and annual data over the period 1972-2012 on ... -
Is New Zealand's economy vulnerable to world oil market shocks?
Jaforullah, Mohammad; King, AlanWe assess New Zealand’s vulnerability to oil shocks by estimating its price and income elasticities of demand for imported oil and by testing for Granger causality between oil imports, their price and GDP. Based on data ... -
Maori disadvantage in the labour market
Alexander, W Robert J; Murat, Genc; Jaforullah, MohammadThis paper is a preliminary report on research that is ongoing. Using unit record data from Statistics New Zealand's Income Survey for the June quarters of 1997 to 1999, we estimate wage regressions taking into account the ... -
Scale and pure efficiencies of New Zealand secondary schools
Alexander, W Robert J; Jaforullah, MohammadThe scale efficiency of schools is a controversial matter. Government quite naturally wants to capture such scale efficiencies as are available, while parents and educators often favour smaller schools because of their ... -
Sensitivity of technical efficiency estimates to estimation approaches: an investigation using New Zealand dairy industry data
Jaforullah, Mohammad; Premachandra, ErandiUsing data from the New Zealand dairy industry for the year 1993, this paper estimates farm-specific technical efficiencies and mean technical efficiency using three different estimation techniques under both constant ... -
A two-stage double-bootstrap data envelopment analysis of efficiency differences of New Zealand secondary schools
Alexander, W Robert J; Jaforullah, Mohammad; Haug, Alfred A.We conduct a two-stage (DEA and regression) analysis of the efficiency of New Zealand secondary schools. Unlike previous applications of two-stage semi-parametric modelling of the school “production process”, we use Simar ...