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 …

. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the …

with HPWPs are more likely to make frequent suggestions for productivity increase and quality improvement. As such, this …

This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …

productivity in Germany. This association increases with firm size. Comparison to a similar survey in the US indicates that the …Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate … establishment specific management scores following Bloom and van Reenen as indicators of management quality. We find substantial …

with the size of production units. These distortions lead to sharp reductions in plant productivity and the fraction of … are critical in accounting for the differences in size distribution between the U.S. and Japan …

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …

Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by …

data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for evidence … or defence R&D. Our findings tentatively suggest that for maximum market sector productivity impact government innovation …