-based simulations are then proposed in order to assess productivity gains which would occur if firms had the opportunity to evolve in …

This documents aims at bridging productivity measurement and weak sustainability in a specific data envelopment …. Adjustment net saving is seen as a sustainability indicator and then the productivity indicator computed can be understood as a … sustainability productivity index. …

industrial relations, work and employment management. Once, these industry was owned and managed by big national groups … workforce (with the retirement of baby- boom generation), and the question of transmission of skills. The age management … market in which firms are embedded, influence the downsizing strategy and the age management of firms. We will focus our …

countries : France, an industrialized country where the disparities between sexes are outstandingly small, and Japan, where they … are particularly large. It is also proposed to explore the reasons why the male/female wage gap is so large in Japan in … comparison with France. It has been designed as follows. In section 1, we begin by comparing the general features of labour …

&D), patent and blueprints, scientific and technical workers, and management techniques. In addition, intangible assets consist of …

that core infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) matter for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and … Technical Efficiency (TE).In the analysis, we use a range of advanced estimation techniques to overcome problems of non …

social learning effect using a Spatial Autoregressive (SAR) model. Particularly, we calculate the technical efficiency and … environmental efficiency from a SFA model and use them as dependent variables of the model. Moreover, we investigate the social …

. Particularly damaged by the economic reforms implemented from 1975 to the end of the 1990s, township hospitals efficiency is … the efficiency of township hospitals through a two-stage approach. As curative and preventive medical services delivered … different orientation chosen to compute scores. Results show that technical efficiency declines over time. Factors explaining …

This paper analyses technical efficiency of French urban public transport from 1995 to 2002 with unbalanced panel data …

productivity differentials in Moldovan agriculture. We compute non-parametric measures of technical efficiency for a sample of …This paper considers whether it is differences in technical efficiency or differences in factor endowments that explain … Moldovan agriculture. We find that differences in technical efficiency explain very little of the great heterogeneity in …