Analysis with variable returns to scale, and related to a Malmquist index of total factor productivity and to selected policy …This paper analyses the evolution and policy drivers of the productivity of farmers' human capital in EU agriculture …

show that ULC is wage divided by labor productivity. Thus, changes in ULC are often discussed in the context of wage … increases and labor productivity. However, a higher wage induces firms to substitute labor with capital, which affects labor … productivity. However, the conventional decomposition of changes in ULC dismisses this indirect impact of wage on ULC through labor …

literature and discuss several other related indexes. We present two impossibility results demonstrating that no index can … satisfy all of the axioms on a general class of (well-behaved) technologies. Specifically, no inefficiency index can satisfy … both indication and continuity (in either quantities or technologies), and no inefficiency index can satisfy both …

A quarter-century after reunification, labor productivity in eastern Germany continues to lag systematically behind the … West. Denison-Hall-Jones point-in-time estimates point to large gaps in total factor productivity as the proximate cause …

companies in the medium and long term. The methodology used consists of calculating different profitability and productivity … at significantly low productivity levels and in conditions of technical inefficiency, due to both the inability of the …

so-called "green", productivity. To measure the latter, we derive a Solow-type Divisia environmental productivity index … index also provides a meaningful way to decompose environmental productivity into environmental technological and efficiency … the traditional (desirable-output-oriented) technical productivity and the undesirable-output-oriented environmental, or …

Development Fund (ERDF) aimed at direct investments in R&D is associated with improvement of firms’ productivity in a region …

combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed … components of the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index and the proposed index are different, the developments of …

. Productivity measurement, taking these types of production functions into consideration, leads to different interpretations of … productivity change than traditional approaches not being clear about which production function concept is used. -- Structural … change ; productivity measurement ; putty-clay ; ex ante production function ; short-run industry production function …