Title: The efficiency of public vocational institutions by DEA: case of VTACs of Batna province, Algeria

Authors: Adel Achi

Addresses: Department of Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Economics, Commerce and Management Sciences, University of Batna 1, Batna 05000, Algeria

Abstract: Vocational Training and Apprenticeship Centres (VTACs) are public institutions using considerable public resources and contributing to economy development. The purpose of this paper is to measure and explain efficiency scores for a sample of Algerian VTACs that are located in Batna province. Based on data obtained from the Direction of Professional Training of Batna province, in the first stage, data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to measure efficiency scores of 17 VTACs in the second stage, Tobit regression model was employed to explain the effect of environmental factors. The DEA results show that the efficiency scores, using CCR model, reveal that out of all the above 17 VTACs, only seven VTACs are efficient. The remaining ten VTACs are inefficient. The average efficiency is 0.776. The efficiency scores, based on ARI-CCR model, reveal that out of all the above 17 VTACs, only two VTACs are efficient. The average efficiency of all VTACs, in the case of ARI-CCR model, is 0.731. The results from the Tobit regression indicate that the efficiency scores are affected positively by experience and location, and negatively by private sector.

Keywords: efficiency; vocational training and apprenticeship centre; data envelopment analysis; weight restrictions; Tobit regression.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIE.2020.107999

International Journal of Management in Education, 2020 Vol.14 No.4, pp.352 - 378

Received: 18 Jan 2019
Accepted: 07 Jun 2019
Published online: 01 Jul 2020 *

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