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 …

transitions, and this allows for estimation of the degree of search frictions. The firm data are informative on labor productivity … difference between labor productivity and wages in a market depends on the degree of frictions and other determinants. We correct …

switch to salary firms once their productivity is revealed. The magnitude of the resulting worker flows depends on the payoff …. Advantages in measuring worker productivity constitute a plausible explanation for the emergence of specialized business related …

step we elicit subjects’ productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme …) compared to the fixed payment scheme. Second, this difference is largely driven by productivity sorting. On average, the more …

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

-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …

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