In this paper we assess the impact of flexible work time schedules on firm efficiency using representative … and the determinants of technical efficiency simultaneously. The innovation of our study is that we draw on technical … efficiency instead of productivity to appraise the success of flexible working hours. The results indicate that while the use of …

technical, allocative and economic efficiency of a sample of organic and conventional cotton farms located in Greece. The …'s age and education and farm size are important factors in explaining differentials in efficiency estimates. In comparative … terms, organic farms exhibit lower efficiency scores vis-à-vis their conventional counterparts in terms of technical and …

In this paper we assess the impact of flexible work time schedules on firm efficiency using representative … and the determinants of technical efficiency simultaneously. The innovation of our study is that we draw on technical … efficiency instead of productivity to appraise the success of flexible working hours. The results indicate that while the use of …

of scale in Kenyan dairy in terms of relative profit efficiency at different levels of output, and identify policy and … significant effect on efficiency, confirming the relative competitiveness of small-scale dairy producers. Dairy farmers with … commercial poultry achieved higher relative profit efficiency as poultry waste was fed to cattle. Rural location relative to …

stochastic frontier allows for the modeling of regional heterogeneity though different degrees of regional efficiency …. Additionally, in the stochastic frontier framework it is possible to analyze the role of economic variables in regional efficiency …. A variable of particular interest for the explanation of efficiency is the ratio of public to private capital. We claim …

industries using firm-level panel data. The technical efficiency of firms is found to vary significantly both within and across … industrial sectors in each country. We find strong evidence of a positive relationship between firm technical efficiency levels … between firm efficiency and size is also found to be positive, suggesting big industrial firms in the former planned economies …

adoption of IRM variety and efficiency levels of farmers in western Kenya. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select … adopt or not. The study reveals that the mean technical efficiency of maize production of sampled farmers is 70% indicating … adoption of IRM for enhanced farm efficiency should focus on farmers’ education, farming experience and access to information …

efficiency of treated firms in at least some two-digit industries. …