and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that …

, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We …

This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade … statistically significant and economically large effects of trade activities on profits. This demonstrates that any productivity …

benefit from exporting in terms of an increased rate of profit. This means, that the usually observed higher productivity of … 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 …

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 …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … productivity. Secondly, we draw attention to recent modeling and estimation effort that reveals novel sources of heterogeneity, non …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …