capabilities and knowledge, considered as key inputs to foster economic growth. Then, attention will be turned to structural change …

involvement in cognate activities with a parent, indicating a behavioural relationship between capabilities and activities which …

between opportunities and SWB dimensions, distinguishing between actual capabilities and means (education, employment, and … capabilities and SWB (particularly, life evaluations), which varies across world regions. Capabilities can also be associated with …

accumulation to an otherwise static literature on capabilities. Skills embodied in agents empower people. Enhanced skills enhance … opportunities and hence promote capabilities. We address measurement problems common to both the economics of human development and …

account for the possibility that some functionings may increase when a person's capabilities decrease, if substitution effects … impairment has widespread rather than concentrated impacts on capabilities and is associated with higher psychological costs.. We …

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

activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …

manage to survive submit to market powers and increase their female workforce over time. -- Firm survival ; profitability …