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 …

A decline in poverty generally masks regional disparities that are due to varying efficiency among states. Using a … generalized true random-effects model, we distinguish between persistent and transient inefficiencies on subnational efficiency to … reduce poverty and its determinants in Bolivia. Our findings reveal that states differ in terms of efficiency, with some …

unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …

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 …

The link between time-of-day and productivity on cognitive tasks is crucial to understand workplace efficiency and … important determinant of productivity and (iii) implies that efficiency gains of up to 0.14 standard deviations can be achieved … productivity between day and night shifts, we establish that such relationship is also important within a standard day-light shift …

Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises … on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …

) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … ; gender ; productivity ; profitability ; Germany …

) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … productivity measures. If prices reflect idiosyncratic demand or market power shifts, high "productivity" businesses may not be … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately …