We use a state-level panel data set for the period 1969-2005 to analyze the relative importance of profitability (rate … of profit) and industrial disputes (man-days lost to all industrial disputes per worker) in explaining cross … added, investment and employment - we find that profitability is more significant than industrial disputes in explaining the …

The firms’ performance assessment for regulation requires estimating profit change and its drivers. This study … estimates and decomposes profit changes into components such as output and input price changes, output growth, and markups …. Using the stochastic frontier analysis, we compute the drivers of productivity change, such as technical change, returns to …

best to achieve a high level of productivity which leads to improved profitability due to employees' innovativeness … independent variable is diversity management while performance (dependent variable) was measured with Employees' Productivity (EP …), Profitability Level (PL), and Employees' Innovativeness (EINV). The data collected were analyzed using Correlation Analysis and …

The purpose of this paper is to treat scale economies, profit-maximizing markups, economic profitability, capacity … utilization and productivity growth within an integrated structural model, and to assess their interactions empirically using … annual two-digit U.S. manufacturing data. Attention is focused on error biases in measuring productivity using traditional …

This paper examines the impact of unionization on profit- ability, growth and productivity using time series data on … negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by … analysis is that information about union wage and productivity effects is not sufficient to permit prediction of the sign (or …