characterized by far less mobility and opportunity. While we recognize the potential explanations of reduced productivity and age …

forms that can improve productivity quality of working life. Nevertheless, it prevail a slow development and dissemination …

This paper develops an index for comparing the productivity of groups of operating units in cost terms when input … groups of units in terms of technical productivity in the absence of input prices. The index is decomposed to reveal the … origins of differences in performance of the groups of units both in terms of technical and cost productivity. The index and …

This paper develops a model of cross-border M&A activity that features firm-level productivity shocks and endogenous … high productivity levels that induced them to invest in large export networks several years prior to acquisition, but … subsequently experienced a negative productivity shock (i.e., cherries for sale). From the theory we derive a dynamic panel binary …

Italian cooperatives have maintained a dimension significantly greater, labour productivity and labour costs lower and profit …