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

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

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 …

: profitability and labor productivity increase, while overheads and investment fall. In contrast, we find limited effects on pay …

us to instrument firms' profitability by its lagged value. The instrumented elasticity between wages and profits is found …

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …