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 …

performance by union companies. Two industries - automotives and airlines - are used to illustrate these points. If worker …

Recent studies have emphasized the importance of the quality of politicians for good government and consequently … economic performance. But if the quality of leadership matters, then understanding what motivates individuals to become … better quality politicians and improve political performance using exogenous variation in the salaries' of local legislators …

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 …

Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the enterprise level for … 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 …

We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of …

This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis …, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this … industries with more scope for quality differentiation, as measured by the advertising and R&D intensity of U.S. industries. The …

This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long … across plants, we find that labor strife at the Decatur plant closely coincided with lower product quality. Monthly data …