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 …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant … to nearly all empirical studies on the relationship between productivity and exports we do not find any evidence for self …

According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female …

This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade … statistically significant and economically large effects of trade activities on profits. This demonstrates that any productivity …

other aspects of firm behaviour. In this paper we consider the impact of minimum wages on firm profitability by exploiting … firm profitability was significantly reduced (and wages significantly raised) by the minimum wage introduction. This … residential care homes, and a second on firms across all sectors). Interestingly, we find no evidence that the profitability …

We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of …