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

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 …

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 …

a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major …

We see industrialization in China the last 150 years as an ongoing process through which firms acquired and deepened … seriously limit benefits. For a latecomer like China, modern industry initially finds its most success in more labor …-intensive products and processes. China's experience shows that government can both support and obstruct this process.Our review of long …

Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering … year. We find robust evidence of rent sharing (RS): workers that would move from low- to high-profit firms would see their … importance, RS in China is smaller and more symmetric than in developed economies, which reflects the weaker bargaining power of …

emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U … intensifies competitive pressure, reducing sales, profitability, and R&D expenditure at U.S. firms. Accounting for confounding …

We investigate the effect of rising labor costs on induced technological change in China's secondary industry. While …/environmental protection, there has been little evidence relating to China's adjustments as rising labor costs affect its global … rising wages have induced labor-saving innovation in China, at least in the decade of the 1990s, but less so or not at all …