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: profitability and labor productivity increase, while overheads and investment fall. In contrast, we find limited effects on pay …
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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 …
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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 from 2002 to 2010, to a unique data set developed by...
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), although this difference is very small. However, they generate the same amount of profit per unit of revenue as men. We find …
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Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...
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This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that...
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This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade …
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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 … this bill and analyze whether and by how much its passage increased shareholders' profit. The empirical results show that …
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activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …
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This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...
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