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 …

This study investigates the impact of telecommunications penetration on the aggregate production efficiency in a large … cross-section of fifty countries. We show that higher levels of ICT capital stock penetration increase technical efficiency … efficiency in case of the poorest nations, while in the more developed countries such gains have been largely exhausted. In the …

We show that financial constraints may benefit innovation by improving the efficiency of innovative activities. We … measure firm-level innovative efficiency by patents (or patent citations) scaled by R&D (research and development) investment … or the number of employees, and find that financial constraints are positively associated with innovative efficiency …

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …