This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade …

The paper links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration … quantitative impact of immigrants on employer profit, and which employers are most likely to gain (suffer) increased (reduced …) profits as a result of immigration. Using event study analysis, I measure the impact of immigration policy on the profit of …

activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as … predicted by theory, while this is not true for domestic sourcing. The results are robust to various specifications and an …

: 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 …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …-productivity profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …' 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 …