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A Study on Changing Trend and Regional Character of China's Service Industry Productivity——An Empirical Analysis Based on DEA

Su Qin

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This paper measures the total factor productivity(TFP)index of service industry in 31 provinces of China from 1993~2007 and decomposes this index into technical progress index and technical efficiency change index using Malmquist productivity index based on DEA.Results show that:productivity of China's service industry is overall increasing and shapes inverse U curve;technical progress is the primary increase factor of service industry's productivity and technical efficiency is the key constraint of service industry's productivity increase in China;regional development of service industry productivity in China is extremely unbalanced and east region has more increase advantage comparing with middle and west region.

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Key concepts: Total factor productivity, Index (typography), Tertiary sector of the economy, Productivity, Service (business), Malmquist index, China, Constraint (computer-aided design)