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. …

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 …

productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …

) 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 …

This study examines how deregulation affects product market competition and thereby productivity. Productivity grows … to renounce high rents and cut costs, which increases static efficiency. However, static efficiency boosts productivity … rivals, they ensure firms a quiet life. Deregulation has therefore great potential to boost productivity growth. This study …

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