longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency … of atypically rapid growth of total factor productivity (TFP) relative to levels in OECD countries, and that the rise in … firm efficiency occurs across almost all industries and firm types: large or small; state or private; domestic or foreign …

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator. The …

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 …

while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is … explained by growth in the use of factor inputs. We also find that median technical efficiency declined in all but one of the … industries between the two years, and change in technical efficiency explains a very small proportion in the change in gross …

, education and demographic characteristics affects the productivity of firms in Denmark. Implementing a structural estimation of … firm's value added. Conversely, diversity in ethnicity and demographics induces negative effects on firm productivity …

This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level … capita, total factor productivity, and wages of skilled workers between pairs of source and destination countries. These …

productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output … growth, far less attention has been paid to its effects on productivity growth. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis … of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that …

further use the Olley-Pakes methodology to estimate total factor productivity (TFP) and show that TFP has increased in most …

specification of TFP is based on a "neo-Schumpeterian" empirical specification in which productivity improvements depend on growth … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both … to reduce the productivity performance of firms. The negative effect is particularly strong on firms characterised by an …

specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and … the more significant vehicle for productivity enhancing effects of trade openness. Investment in technology is, by far …, most strongly correlated with plant productivity. Like productivity, job turnover at firm level is strongly influenced by …