efficiency change has been invariant to the treatment of the undesirable output as input. The average productivity growth is 2 …, the productivity growth is driven by technological change. …

Malaysia shows that Malaysia managed to achieve construction labour productivity growth between 1996 and 2005 despite increases …The construction industry is one of major strategic importance. Its level of productivity has a significant effect on … the increase in capital intensity. The marginal decline in capital productivity is due to the gestation period and the …

between infrastructure and private productivity. The second subject is the determinants of regional infrastructure investment … infrastructure to private production; the essays three to five study besides the productivity effects also the determinants of …

rigidity. The third essay analyses how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm performance in a … among heterogeneous producers and increases average productivity and profit levels, firm-level bargaining allows less … productive entrants to remain in the market. The positive effect of centralised bargaining on average productivity can, however …

on productivity growth, and additionally export behavior has to be persistent over time. Both conditions are empirically …

-, consultation-, and co-determination rights. The effects works councils have on productivity and profits are estimated for medium …-sized manufacturing firms using information from the IAB establishment panel. The results indicate a positive effect on productivity of 6 …

In this study the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in deposit-taking institutions is … investigated using nonparametric frontier techniques. Employing Malmquist indices, productivity growth is decomposed into technical … societies experienced productivity gain in the past several years, and this was largely the result of technological progress …