occupational structures when explaining productivity and profitability gaps between global and local firms. The findings indicate … reflected in their productivity, it is not as clearly reflected in their profitability.The findings imply that employees have … captured a dominant share of the productivity advantage of global firms. …

In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of ambient air pollution on individuals' productivity by using panel data … and players. Our analysis shows negative and non-linear effects of air pollution on short-run productivity. We further …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …

This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manufacturing is competitive because …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …

) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …

000 employees. In terms of firm size classes, the variances in profitability and productivity were large in software firms …. There are signs that middle-sized software firms (30-70 employees) suffer from lower than average productivity and … profitability, and their productivity growth rate has also been lower than in other size classes. On the whole, the labour …

unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …