and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …

issue of labour market flexibility in transition countries by studying the optimality and efficiency of labour usage among … by value-added and capital stock. Speed of adjustment and labour use optimality and efficiency show much greater … the efficiency of labour usage. On average there is shortage of labour compared to firms’ own optimal level, while over …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country … hypothesis that spillovers are greater for FDI with more advanced technology. While efficiency of domestic firms’ is affected by … firm’s "absorptive capacity" we find: i) distance from the efficiency frontier tends to dampen horizontal spillovers in …