The modelling of the interaction between production activities and the natural environment requires formulating a multioutput production function for intended and unintended outputs. The key feature when modelling joint production of intended outputs and unintended residuals is that the latter...

This paper examines the relationship between the use of advanced technologies such as ICT, and outcomes such as productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that U.S. businesses engage in experimentation in a...

Institutional change has taken place gradually since 1978 for State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the Industrial Sector of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital and operate on international markets) on the productivity...

Über 1,59 Bill. DM wurden von 1991 bis 1999 in den neuen Ländern investiert. Trotz der schon relativ ausgeprägten Kapitalintensität bleiben aber Arbeits- und Kapitalproduktivität der ostdeutschen Unternehmen hinter der ihrer Konkurrenten zurück. Nach wie vor sind in Ostdeutschland die...