This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years … that if upstreamness increases by one step (that is, by approximately, one standard deviation), productivity rises on …

smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales revenues) and are less efficient in terms of Total Factor Productivity (TFP …), although this difference is very small. However, they generate the same amount of profit per unit of revenue as men. We find …

efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large …

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

this firm, increasing in importance when the workers' outside alternatives deteriorate. Profit-maximizing gifts would …

productivity and wage growth …

focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not … subsidiary increases the probability of focusing on short-term profit. These findings conform to the hypothesis that foreign … short-term profit. However, we do not identify differences in "short-termism" between investors from "Anglo-Saxon" and other …

Despite the "1/N problem" associated with profit sharing, the empirical literature finds that sharing profits with … observing that, although the incentive to work harder under profit sharing is weak, it might be sufficient to motivate workers … for this conjecture and we discuss the results of an experiment that confirms that profit sharing is most effective when …