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 …

, its short-run adjustments do not seem to have an impact on health care productivity. Spatial spill overs in life …

. Spillovers from FDI are identified by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants in districts …

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor … productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic … variances has been used for the estimation of the translog production functions. Two alternative formulations of technical …

dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …

productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they … find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover …, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of …

This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of …