This paper is a survey of recent contributions to, and developments of, the relationship between outsourcing …, efficiency and productivity growth in manufacturing and services. The objective is to provide a thorough and up-to-date survey …-specific modelling are discussed. Second, we survey the econometric approach to efficiency analysis. The issues of modelling …

The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … model might work when the survey sampling and questionnaire are identical but the national data sets are estimated … separately. Findings from the micro-based data in Europe known as Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data were subsequently …