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 …

base (2005). Second, we establish clear empirical links between infrastructure and productivity using South African time …- income countries for the period 1980-2002 and then project investment needs in these sectors until 2010. Our projections …

infers that, all nations, irrespective their level of development, should evaluate Productivity/Management Decisions with …

practical solutions. Algebraic Model with a broad based Redefined Productivity Model and Management Decision integrated with …

This paper investigates efficiency using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and productivity growth using Malmquist index … and loans and other earning assets as output in the DEA analysis we observe no significant growth in productivity during … the sampled period. The rate of increase in technical efficiency though small is likely to be due to scale efficiency …