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 …

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 …

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

It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … growth in total factor productivity. …