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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 …
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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 …
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recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers? wages. We then discuss in … detail how organizational capital has been measured and the measurement issues that face those trying to understand the …
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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 … to nearly all empirical studies on the relationship between productivity and exports we do not find any evidence for self …
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According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...
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We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of …
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) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …
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) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … productivity measures. If prices reflect idiosyncratic demand or market power shifts, high productivity businesses may not be … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately …
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are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability. Moreover …
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works councils on firm performance, while highlighting some important measurement issues and diversity of finding. Given the …
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