Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the …

additional information contained in profits, which complements the information from wages and transitions typically used in … previous work. We identify the strength of sorting solely from a ranking of firms by profits. To discern the sign of sorting …

, operating surplus and profits as performance indicators are estimated. Heterogeneity and robustness are investigated by a … operating surplus of IV panel estimates. However, on average, we find a tendency towards negative effects on profits. This …

We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and … types and firm profits to rank firms. We use a panel data set that combines social security earnings records for workers in …

competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved … competitiveness vary across sectors: while temporary employment is found to enhance productivity and profits in (labour …

the mean value - raises profits on average by somewhat less than half a percentage point, reduces average labour costs by … about 0.1 percent and has no effect on TFP. The positive effects on profits are larger for small firms operating in low tech …

this rise has been accompanied by a rise in the level and variability of corporate profits whereas the labor share of … income has declined. In this paper we ask whether these trends are related in that they can be explained by a common …. By assumption, firms can adjust capital more easily than labor. Profits arise from rents paid to quasi-fixed factors of …