notoriously low selfemployment rate. Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such programmes is scarce. The contribution of the … present paper is twofold: first, we evaluate the effectiveness of two start-up programmes for the unemployed. Our outcome … the results of this analysis, we conduct an efficiency analysis, i.e., we estimate whether the Federal Employment Agency …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of … productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business … results suggest that mobility through business visits is an effective mechanism to improve productivity. The estimated effect …

productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …

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 … industries between the two years, and change in technical efficiency explains a very small proportion in the change in gross …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

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 …

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator. The …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

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 … industries between the two years, and change in technical efficiency explains a very small proportion in the change in gross …