Wage Dispersion and Efficiency. It is often assumed that markets generate efficient allocations, but these are not … compensating differentials will increase both efficiency and fairness, quite in line with the classical position taken by Adam …

literature is mixed with regard to the claimed expenditure reductions and efficiency gains from municipal mergers. We therefore … analyze the global efficiency of the municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt, for the first time in this context, using a double … control for exogenous determinants of municipal efficiency. Our focus thereby is on institutional and fiscal variables …

longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency … firm efficiency occurs across almost all industries and firm types: large or small; state or private; domestic or foreign …-owned. Changes in firm ownership type have no impact on firm efficiency. Rather, competitive pressures that sort out inefficient …

decomposed into measures of efficiency change (?catching up?) and technical change (innovation). We analyse the variation of 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 …

efficiency improvements induced by increases in competition cause dramatic changes in total factor productivity. The paper shows … capital stock is gradually rebuilt, improvements in efficiency will guarantee an output level higher than before the start of …

addressed the productivity and efficiency of the core area of the armed forces, operational units, using Data Envelopment … Analysis (DEA). Introducing a model for the production process of an operational unit, productivity and efficiency are …

influence on productivity can be compensated by efficiency gains. The findings indicate an increase in real unit labor cost as a … observed for the majority of the theaters which implies that significant efficiency gains can be realized by the exploitation …

. Die Effizienz zahlreicher Agrarunternehmen Sachsen-Anhalts wurde darüber hinaus durch den verstärkten Bodenkauf negativ …The main focus of this Discussion Paper the analysis of the efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Sachsen … efficiency measurement the technical, pure technical and scale efficiency of agricultural enterprises on verge of the eastern …