profitfunction. Using the distance function to compute banks’ profitability, we take the distance to the frontier of best practices …

of workplace performance i.e. productivity, efficiency, quality of service and profitability. It uses a new panel dataset … lower absence is associated with higher efficiency, productivity, quality of the service and profitability of the firm …. Finally, the authors suggest that the link between workers’ absence and this firm's profitability runs through the increased …

profitability and stability is correlated with the share of their fee and commission income. Notably, we examine whether the effect … on bank profitability differs depending on the type of fee and commission income. Our results support the view that … securities business, also have a higher profitability. The Z-score also correlates positively with the share of securities …