influence on productivity can be compensated by efficiency gains. The findings indicate an increase in real unit labor cost as a …This paper analyzes the productivity development in the German public theater sector for the seasons 1991 …/1992-2005/2006. Using a stochastic distance frontier approach that allows to decompose total factor productivity change into different …

terms of productivity and technical efficiency than universities that did not apply for the program, albeit these dimensions … applicants suffered a drop in efficiency at the time of applying. All this does not rule out, however, that research …-oriented universities jointly gained productivity through increased competition between them. …