productivity (TFP) in China by allowing producers operating under their own technologies. A metafrontier function approach is … Arbeit misst technische Effizienz (TE) und total factor productivity (TFP) in China unter der Annahme individueller …Economic reform in China helped transform the structure and volume of agricultural production and resulted in …

firms mainly stems from high labour cost, while impact of inefficiency is quite small. Productivity accounts little for the …

In this study, the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in the US truckload (TL) carriers is … index is used to study the productivity changes in the US TL carriers. The window analysis results reveal that the average …, allows productivity changes to be decomposed into two categories: technical efficiency changes, and technological changes …

large number of low-efficiency, small-scale farms, and productivity inequality between small and large farms keeps … between backyard, small-scale, medium-scale and large-scale dairy farms in China over the period between 2004 and 2008 … in productivity, and the productivity difference is explained by technology and technical efficiency. Practical …

enterprises, we estimate the “sequential production technology†in computing the Malmquist productivity index for various size …-groups of enterprises in Chinese industry. Our findings indicate that large enterprises did register the fastest productivity …

, we find that O-FDI in other countries enhances productivity in Taiwan, while O-FDI in China does not. We interpret the …-country productivity. Design/methodology/approach – A panel data set for 15 Taiwanese manufacturing industries over the period between 1991 … and 2007 is employed for a model in which productivity is regressed on a measure of O-FDI. Findings – The study finds no …

This paper estimates the impact of industrial agglomeration on firm-level productivity in Chinese manufacturing sectors … productivity-boosting effect, but agglomeration of urban population (i.e. urbanization) has no such effects. Additionally, the …

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the driving forces of China's recent rapid economic growth and … order to investigate regional productivity performances of Chinese provinces over the period 1994-2006. Findings – Despite … the general concern of widening regional inequalities in China, the findings show a striking trend of convergence among …