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 …

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

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

the issue is inevitable. The results so far are mixed, frequently a positive effect on productivity, but a negative one on … theoretical result that the positive productivity effect is more pronounced in firms with well-defined majorities is confirmed in … the productivity effect is significant, the profitability effect is negative, except for firms with a very high percentage …