market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power …

threat of low-wage competition from Central and Eastern European Countries is relatively high. In addition, firms paying …

We contribute to the growing literature which aims to link product market regulation and competition to labor market … effect of product market competition on unemployment rates, being substantial under collective bargaining and considerably … find that the bargaining regime which emerges endogenously depends crucially on the degree of product market competition …

This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and … on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to … skill through the effect of competition on the sensitivity of profits to cost reductions. I then show empirically that …

This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the …

matching frictions, monopolistic competition in the goods market, multi-worker firms, individual wage bargaining and barriers … to entry. We identify two main channels by which product market competition affects unemployment: the output expansion … externality a la Stole and Zwiebel (1996). Quantitatively, increasing our measure of competition has a surprisingly moderate …

This paper studies the effect of changes in foreign competition on the incentives faced by U.S. managers in the form of … wage structures, promotion profiles, and job turnover. We use a panel of executives and measure foreign competition as … globalization on the labor market outcomes of these workers. We find that higher foreign competition leads to more incentive …

theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage … bargaining. Product market competition affects unemployment by two channels: the output expansion effect and a countervailing … effect due to a hiring externality. Competition is then linked to barriers to entry. We calibrate the model to US data and …

Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm …, product market competition does not have an effect on firm-sponsored training. We conclude that increasing competition through …