in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … profitability, as noted by Freeman and Medoff. Unions are found to tax returns stemming from market power, but industry … investment and, subsequently, lower employment and productivity growth. There is little evidence that unionization leads to …

reduces owners' capital investment – we find that granting formal control rights to workers raises capital formation. The … effect on profitability, leverage, or costs of debt. Overall, the evidence is consistent with richer models of industrial … relations whereby shared governance raises capital by permitting workers to bargain over investment or by institutionalizing …

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 …

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 …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …