In the paper, the sources of productivity growth are investigated by an empirical analysis with micro data for West …. The empirical results reveal that innovative firms exhibit more productivity increases. Large firms exhibit more … productivity increases as compared with small firms, ceteris paribus, which hints towards scale economies at the firm level …

influence on productivity can be compensated by efficiency gains. The findings indicate an increase in real unit labor cost as a …This paper analyzes the productivity development in the German public theater sector for the seasons 1991 …/1992-2005/2006. Using a stochastic distance frontier approach that allows to decompose total factor productivity change into different …

terms of productivity and technical efficiency than universities that did not apply for the program, albeit these dimensions … applicants suffered a drop in efficiency at the time of applying. All this does not rule out, however, that research …-oriented universities jointly gained productivity through increased competition between them. …