While ageing is accepted as a major problem for most industrialized societies, its labour market consequences are not …

The ageing of the population shakes the confidence in the economic viability of pay-as-you-go social security systems …

The European ageing process will lead to a dramatic rise in dependency ratios over the next decades. At the same time … and ageing for European social security systems. With uncoordinated social security policies, national pensions funds …

summarised as follows. First, the demographic shifts towards population ageing lead to a change in the tax base from labor income …

the most efficient innovation processes. We combine a traditional nonparametric frontier approach with super-efficiency … and tests for return to scale properties using bootstrap procedures to derive consistent and robust efficiency estimates … Denmark have the highest R&D efficiency on average in total manufacturing. However, sector-specific efficiency scores reveal …

This paper assesses the relative efficiency of knowledge production in the OECD using a nonparametric DEA approach. In … constraints. The efficiency scores presented are based on an intertemporal frontier estimation for the period 1995 to 2004. We …&D efficiency by attenuating the incentives to innovate and to allocate resources efficiently. …

efficiency improvements through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we apply Data … Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze the potential efficiency gains from mergers between water utilities at the county level. A … conditional efficiency framework is used to account for the operating environment. Highest efficiency improvement potentials turn …

Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic …