model is estimated in order to evaluate the sources of productivity growth: technological progress, technical efficiency … productivity growth, followed by gains in technical efficiency, and to a lesser extent by exploitation of scale economies. Overall …, we find an average productivity growth of 39 per cent within the sample period. -- European railways ; deregulation …

performance indicators, productivity and profitability. -- One -third co-determination ; firm performance ; Germany …

Entry, exit, productivity …

negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence …

estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … observations, or outliers. The paper shows that estimates of the exporter productivity premium by destination are driven by a small … share of outliers. Using a “clean” sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the …

This paper analyzes the productivity development in the German public theater sector for the seasons 1991 …/1992-2005/2006. Using a stochastic distance frontier approach that allows to decompose total factor productivity change into different … influence on productivity can be compensated by efficiency gains. The findings indicate an increase in real unit labor cost as a …

separately. The results showed a diametrically opposing impact of productivity and profitability on the takeover likelihood. This … ; multinational firms ; productivity …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …