the usual analysis of economic rent, as typically explained for the case of consumers' surplus, carries over to the case …

overcrowding. We provide evidence that Scottish workers generally spent their rent reduction entirely on food, rather than saving. …

industries high rent and overcrowding are more prevalent. Within cities, but not between cities, variations in infant mortality …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that … with a lower level of profitability in these firms. If anything, profitability is (slightly) higher in firms with a larger …

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 …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …

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

This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade …