This Working Paper gives insights into the concepts of productivity and efficiency. Both concepts are popular measures … measuring productivity and efficiency in a non-technical manner. Various parametric as well as non parametric approaches are … summarized. In addition, the two most popular efficiency measurement techniques, Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data …

basierenden Methode der Effizienzmessung, wurden die technischen, reinen technischen und Skaleneffizienzen der Agrarunternehmen … efficiency measurement the technical, pure technical and scale efficiency of agricultural enterprises on verge of the eastern …

insights on the repercussions of the macro-economic reform policy agenda during the study period plagued by a productivity … slowdown and the productivity resurgence due to the emergence of the ‘new economy’ and now the challenges to sharpen the … provide superior testable insights on productivity and technical inefficiency than the rival non-parametric Data Envelopment …

The goal of this paper is to analyze changes in productivity and their relation with variations in citizens’ perceived …-2004. To assess changes in productivity the Malmquist indices and Data Envelopment Analysis methodology are used, completing … the analysis with bootstrap procedures. The average results show a rise in productivity accompanied by a drop in citizens …

This article evaluates the performance of health expenditure and demonstrates how productivity has changed over time … could have increased output by 1.2 % based on existing levels of inputs. The finding of decreased productivity growth is …

show how productivity has changed over time for 18 selected OECD countries during 1995 to 2002. Our analysis shows that 14 … economies. The patterns of changes in efficiency for the countries are further analyzed using the Malmquist productivity index … approach. The result shows that total factor productivity is higher in the first sub-period, 1995- 1999, which could be …

This article studies the role of social capital on cotton production efficiency and productivity for a sample of small … contribution to production efficiency after land. The Luenberger indicator is used to assess the productivity improvement … activities is found to play an important role in improving productivity. This is especially relevant to agricultural households …

This study aims to measure efficiency and productivity change in Greek public higher technological educational … optimal scale. The total factor productivity has risen by an annual average of 8.9% relatively to the base year 2005. The …