This paper develops a port productivity and efficiency analysis of all developing regions between 2000 and 2010, using …, and 1,750 data points-, we carry out an analysis of the evolution and drivers of productivity and efficiency changes … across developing regions. We show that productivity growth rates between 2000 and 2010 vary significantly and that this …

We have set out a means of assessing hospital productivity that captures their multiple outputs and inputs. We find … substantial variation in productivity among English hospitals, suggesting scope for productivity improvement. </AbstractSection …

performance and productivity. A robust non-parametric Malmquist index is applied to measure group performance. The significance of … hospitals presented the highest efficiency consistency, they had also the lowest levels of productivity, while the hospitals … productivity. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 …

observed distribution of labor productivity. The distribution of productivity resulting from the matching of workers and firms … are employed by firms with higher productivity. The effect of the reservation wage on unemployment also depends on …

This paper investigates the dynamics of productivity in a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms, focusing on the … determinants of firm-level persistence in time of high total factor productivity (TFP) growth rates relative to the corresponding …

The paper constructs a direct output measure of the education sector for Canada and uses the measure to examine its … productivity performance. It makes an explicit quality adjustment of the output of the education sector by proposing and …

This paper explains in detail the construction of series for productivity in the traded and nontraded sectors for a … panel of 56 countries spanning 1989–2012. The level of productivity in each sector is defined as real value added per … more disaggregated industry source data; and (ii) it allows for meaningful comparisons of the level of productivity across …