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 …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that …

) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …

in rural Thailand, who cultivate and harvest rice once a year. We use a between-subjects design – randomly assigning …

productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large … firm fixed effects. These studies test for a difference in productivity between exporters and non-exporters at the … conditional mean of the productivity distribution. However, if firms are heterogeneous, it is possible that the size of the …

agents in a highly non-linear incentive system, we find that the improvement in productivity far outweighed the costs … accordingly focus more on the productivity-enhancing than on the distortionary effects …

This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade … statistically significant and economically large effects of trade activities on profits. This demonstrates that any productivity …

activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …