estimate the impacts of minimum wages on market entries and exits and firms’ profitability. We find significant effects for … East Germany which point to a substantial shift in industry structure. Minimum wages decreased both market entries and … competition for this group of firms and helped them to increase profitability. The increasing share of sole traders may indicate …

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 …

innovativeness and consequently competitiveness and profitability. Such business ventures, however, might be associated with huge … international R&D activities boost profitability. We employ a large data set of about 1300 firms from the German Community … Innovation Survey (CIS). The empirical results demonstrate that R&D location matters for profitability. Firms with both domestic …

Using a linked employer-employee data set, this paper analyses the relationship between firm profitability and wages …

Using a linked employer-employee data set, this paper analyses the relationship between firm-profitability and wages … cient of zero. Differenced GMM estimates accounting for the endogeneity of our profitability measure even point to a …

or energy consumption has a positive impact on profitability. This positive result holds both for regulation induced and …

if they are not. We present empirical evidence on effects of perceived threat of entry on profitability. Using … profitability is confirmed. The number and the relative size of competitors also exert considerable effects. We find no …