, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that …

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 …

This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade … Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the …

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

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

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 …