Minimum wages generate an asymmetric pass-through of rm shocks across workers. We establish this result leveraging … response to negative rm productivity shocks, workers close to the wage oors experience higher job separations but no wage loss …. However, the wage of high-paid workers decreases, and more so in rms with higher incidence of minimum wages. A neoclassical …

of positive effects emerge. With respect to takeovers of German companies by foreign investors, the productivity and … international, we find positive productivity and sales effects for relatively small companies investing abroad, and this …

of workplace performance i.e. productivity, efficiency, quality of service and profitability. It uses a new panel dataset … lower absence is associated with higher efficiency, productivity, quality of the service and profitability of the firm …. Finally, the authors suggest that the link between workers’ absence and this firm's profitability runs through the increased …