Discussion around total factor productivity gains for the Australian Economy often focuses on infrastructure … concrete case for improvement. In this paper we describe our approach to measuring management as a productivity driver in … internal stocks of intellectual assets are significantly related with higher productivity: our analysis predicts that a low …

We use data on international chess tournaments to study the relationship between age and mental productivity in a brain … age on productivity vary with unobserved ability, commonly used fixed effects estimators applied to raw data do not … guarantee consistent estimates of age-productivity profiles. In our data, this method strongly over-estimates the productivity …

This paper aims to outline synthetically a set of indicators for the study of productivity in education and to … databases of Romania, World Bank, Eurostat, OECD relevant for measuring productivity in education, which opposed to usual … qualitative aspects in measuring productivity, more precisely on the abilities, competencies that have pupils /students and adults …

implications on the productivity of the target banks, and also for the bidder bank. The aim of this paper is to see if, during 2002 … and Erste Bank Group from Austria improved their productivity due to the fact that all of them were involved in a process … method, by estimating the productivity achieved by these three banks during the period pre-M&A, post M&A, but we also …

efficiency change.In other words, the two well-known sources of productivity growth-technology and efficiency-can be augmented by … productivity growth and change transmitted by the best practices represents technical change.Although I use a nonparametric …

What determines the perceived productivity of young and older workers? In this study we present evidence for (Dutch … are revealed. It turns out that productivity perceptions are biased by the age group to which one belongs and the position … productivity compared to employees. However, there are also remarkable similarities across employer and employees. By …

Technological change can increase the productivity of the various factors of production in equal terms or it can be … biased towards a specific factor. We develop an estimator for production functions when productivity is multi-dimensional. We …

collapse; for example, artificial increases in employment in nonproductive public services entailing low productivity …; increasing wages above those guaranteed by productivity increases; an increasing budget deficit which was used primarily for …