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 …

agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We apply the Data Envelopment Analysis …, and its robust version based on bootstrap theory, to get reliable estimates of technical efficiency at the firm level in a … frontiers, as well as to the presence of outliers.The obtained efficiency scores are analyzed in a second stage applying a …

technical efficiency in production. Second, it applies various stochastic frontier panel data models to estimate the technical … efficiency of Iran's cotton production and to provide empirical evidence on the sources of technical inefficiency of cotton … result in reducing technical efficiency. The mean technical efficiency of the models is around 80 percent. Variations in the …

. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the …

equity in labor market opportunities upon efficiency in the production of GDP. It finds that aggregate technical efficiency … tracing its ancestry to ethnic groups who adopted the plough as an agricultural implement. That aggregate technical efficiency … a misallocation of employed women. Additionally, aggregate technical efficiency appears improved by democracy, the …

. We illustrate our methodology by examining the cost efficiency of research programs in Economics and Business Management … cost efficiency differences between universities within specific specialization areas, even when using shadow prices to …

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …

of informality of 157 countries around the world, including developing, eastern European, central Asian and high income …