base (2005). Second, we establish clear empirical links between infrastructure and productivity using South African time …The paper provides three principal results. First, we benchmark South African infrastructure performance in terms of …

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 … that are derived are not grounded in production theory, but the “payment for output” measure can be related to theory … contrast to productivity (incorporating changes in measured quality) estimates. For Australia as a whole in the 1989-90 to 1998 …

high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …

industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence … its own stagnating productivity growth. Moreover, the industry has not yet exhausted opportunities for tackling existing X …

high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …

raising labour force participation and productivity can partly offset the impacts of an ageing population. These would enhance …

resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to … aspects of institutions are involved - infrastructure and superstructure. The paper then applies a simple model to 50 U ….S. reservation economies to assess how the two aspects affect income. The results show that resources and resource productivity are …

institutions are involved - infrastructure and superstructure. It develops and then applies a simple model to 50 U.S. reservation … economies to assess how the two aspects affect income. The results show that resources and resource productivity are necessary …