We work out technical efficiency levels of the Indian States and Union Territories using Data Envelopment Analysis from … from 1980-81 to 1997-98 using Kernel densities. The efficiency factor accounted for 5.07 % only,technological change … productivity change is of 11.66%. The overall averages provide evidence of productivity improvements of 173.29 over 1980-81(base …

We work out technical efficiency levels of 29 countries consisting of some selected South Asian, East Asian and EU … countries using data envelopment analysis. Luxembourg has an efficiency score of one(most efficient) in all the years … .Netherlands also has an efficiency score of one in 1966,1971,1976 and 1981.Japan,UK,Belgium,Ireland,Indonesia,Spain and Germany …

We work out technical efficiency levels of 29 countries consisting of some selected South Asian, East Asian and EU … countries using data envelopment analysis. Luxembourg has an efficiency score of one(most efficient) in all the years … .Netherlands also has an efficiency score of one in 1966,1971,1976 and 1981.Japan,UK,Belgium,Ireland,Indonesia,Spain and Germany …

technology and the importance of technical and allocative efficiency. We show that the diversity of factor choices in not due to … a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity … differentials could be levelled out, substantial gains thorough improvements in allocative efficiency would be possible. …

, under the assumption that a positive relationship exists between efficiency and productivity. Finally, we compare … institutional efficiency scores of national training markets to other measures of productivity and ask whether a particular set of …We investigate the effect of institutions on efficiency of training markets. After setting up a theoretical …

Because of the costs involved in such exercises, current productivity measures do not necessarily fully take into … contrast to productivity (incorporating changes in measured quality) estimates. For Australia as a whole in the 1989-90 to 1998 …-99 period, the annual multifactor productivity (MFP) increase was 1.64 percent and the annual increase in community preference …

I estimate the effect of team production on labor productivity and product quality using a cross section of British … establishment enjoys statistically significant increases in labor productivity (but not product quality) from using teams, though …