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 …

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …

while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is …

) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … productivity measures. If prices reflect idiosyncratic demand or market power shifts, high productivity businesses may not be … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately …

In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether … model explicitly takes into account the effects of supply and demand shifts on the allocation structure to disentangle …

This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent … the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover, the gap is more pronounced for low-productivity …

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 … to nearly all empirical studies on the relationship between productivity and exports we do not find any evidence for self …