when estimation of productivity is the task. To multiply impute the missing data a data augmentation algorithm based on a … technical inefficiency is favoured compared to a case where we assume different production functions in East and West Germany … in Germany. …

In this paper, stochastic production frontier models are estimated with IAB establishment data from waves 2002 and 2003 … statistics. Therefore the missing values are multiply imputed. The analysis of the estimation results shows that, particularly in …