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This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manu-facturing is competitive because … of the high productivity level in 2007. However, the measurement of profitability and the quality of price components …
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external credit. We also offer an initial understanding about how profitability and productivity relate with a third dimension …In this work we investigate two crucial dimensions of firms' structure and dynamics, that is profitability and … productivity performance. The empirical distributions and the associated persistence over time are explored through a set of …
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This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...
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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 … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …
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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 microeconometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …
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productivity at company-level. It is based on a conceptual study aiming to understand the relationship as well as two statistical … the results of intellectual capital measures and productivity measures are examined. The conceptual study suggests that … the company-level relationship between IC and productivity is a complex and case-specific phenomenon. The biggest problems …
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reallocation through an investigation of the productivity-profitability-growth relations at the firm level. Exploiting large panels … profitability differentials, whereas the relationships of corporate growth with either productivity or profitability appear much …
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export market performance over the last few years is linked to the deterioration of profitability of production in Finland. A … profitability. Wage moderation is necessary for this to happen. On the other hand, the determinants of Finland’s long …
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firm's ability to improve its productivity growth and profitability. The case study reported here concerns the … in which the dependent variable is alternatively (labor) productivity growth and profitability. Our findings show that … only patents with the EPO, along with larger firm size, have a statistically significant relationship with productivity …
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-specific (temporal) index number based profitability growth as a function of the profitability, productivity and price performance growth … that the steady decline in average price performance, gains in productivity and relatively stable economic profitability … after 2000, suggest that Ofwat is now more focused on passing productivity benefits to consumers, and maintaining stable …
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