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 …-disease ; efficiency ; stochastic frontier analysis …

background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … conditional order-m approach which is a nonparametric method for efficiency computation accounting for environmental variables … performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals …

farm level technical efficiency in Afghanistan. Data from a household level survey conducted in 2013-2004 by the Central … the farmers significantly improves technical efficiency. In addition, access to extension services, farm size, cattle … affect technical efficiency. It is evident from the results that the estimated technical efficiency indices from the …

analyzed income effects in the small farm sector, impacts on productivity and efficiency have hardly been studied. We use a …%. We also find positive and significant impacts on technical efficiency and scale efficiency. Supermarket expansion …

. While recent research has analyzed income effects in the small farm sector, impacts on farming efficiency have hardly been … supermarket channels increases mean technical efficiency by 19%. This gain is bigger at lower levels of efficiency, suggesting the …

This paper measures environmental efficiency (EE) and environmental productivity (EP) and analyzes differences in these …

This paper studies the effect of local off-farm employment and migration on rural households’ technical efficiency of … impact of migration on technical efficiency is rarely studied. Methodologically, we incorporate the correlated random … and off-farm employment decisions and technical efficiency. The most consistent result that emerged from our econometric …

change and technical efficiency change in India's paper industry. The prime objective of this article is to assess the impact … technical efficiency and technical change in this particular manufacturing sector. The paper applies Malmquist Productivity … stagnation in technical efficiency. Non-responding technical efficiency change and the deteriorating technical change were the …