strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …

-existent compensating wage differentials. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved productivity differences that were …

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 …

for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, self-employment remains constrained to low-productivity … labor away from these low-productivity activities into higher value added sectors. …

fee-for-service basis. Since wage rates are exogenous, earning differentials are driven by differences in productivity. We …-specific characteristics (particularly earnings differentials) on physician location decisions. We find, among other things, that high-productivity … physicians (based on unobservables) are more likely to migrate to provinces where the productivity premium is greater, while low-productivity …

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