This paper addresses the effect of Internet use on efficiency heterogeneity among firms. It uses a rich dataset for Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 2000-2005. The empirical framework is based on the simultaneous specification of stochastic frontier and inefficiency effects. The results...

The aim of this paper is to illustrate that, under certain assumptions, the influence of unemployment benefits (UB) on the efficiency in labour allocation depends crucially on the way UB affect Job search. Individual Job search is influenced by UB in a twofold way: decreasing search intensity...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the productive change that has taken place in the postal sector of the European Union. Using the Malmquist index, the productivity growth of European postal operators is broken up into two factors: the variations in efficiency levels and the technical change....

The completion of the European Single Market should bring out an exploitation of comparative advantages in production and trade. It is usually assumed that, given the predominance of intraeuropean trade flows in the global import figures of the European Union, efficiency gains from trade...