switch sites. In this paper, we look at the productivity and quality implications of multi-site work. To estimate the effect … productivity. Specifically, for each additional site at which a physician works, we observe a 2% increase in patient length of stay …

The recent global recession has revealed the vital importance of service-sector productivity in all developed economies …. The challenge for scholars and professionals in productivity management (economics and management science) in the coming … decade is clearly to improve the productivity of the services sector. Section I addresses the economy-wide problems of …

This paper proposes a novel method to estimate productivity and quality at the firm-product level, together with … between observed data and unobserved productivity and quality. It has the advantage of allowing for heterogeneous unobserved … relying on productivity evolution. We apply this method to a set of Mexican manufacturing industries. We find that multi …