Browsing by Author "Kotamraju, Pradeep"
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Item A Comparative Analysis of Subsistence Energy Use and Supply in Indian Villages(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1986) Kotamraju, PradeepItem The Efficiency of the High Technology Economy: Conventional Development Indexes Versus a Programming Approach to Development Indexes(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 2002-10) Raab, Raymond L; Kotamraju, PradeepItem Optimum Skill Mix Choice and Maximizing Job Performance: Ranking Occupations Using a DEA Framework(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1999) Raab, Raymond L; O'Brien, A. Maureen; Kotamraju, PradeepA programming approach, data envelopment analysis (DEA), will sort and rank occupations on the basis of maximizing skills required and minimizing that occupation’s wage resulting in a set of “hiring” efficiency scores. This procedure improves Borda rankings (rankings based on the average of rankings of the individual components), fixed weight, or subjective weighting schemes. In DEA the linear programming weights or coefficients are explicitly chosen to maximize the discrimination between the skills and wages. A rank correlation between the efficiency scores and various work and demographic variables is performed. The results show a negative correlation between the wage rate and efficiency scores. This implies that employers, when recruiting for workers, find it much easier to “hit the mark” in terms of achieving an optimum skill mix, for low-wage jobs than when recruiting workers for high-wage jobs. This conclusion has broad implications for career tracking and career mapping, particularly when workforce shortages make employee recruitment and retention extremely critical.Item Subsistence Economics and Ecological Irreversibilities: The Case of Subsistence Fuels in India(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1986) Kotamraju, PradeepItem Why Child Care in Duluth May Not be Two-Tiered: A Study Using Licensed Child Care(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1989) Kotamraju, Pradeep