This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's "productive efficiency" (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency … production efficiency. We argue that our results suggest that the debate about the implications of institutional quality is far … ; production efficiency ; stochastic frontier model …

equity in labor market opportunities upon efficiency in the production of GDP. It finds that aggregate technical efficiency … tracing its ancestry to ethnic groups who adopted the plough as an agricultural implement. That aggregate technical efficiency … a misallocation of employed women. Additionally, aggregate technical efficiency appears improved by democracy, the …

value added. -- Productivity ; growth decomposition ; efficiency ; manufacturing … 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 …