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The emergence of competition is a defining aspect of human nature and characterizes many important social environments … stronger competitiveness in within group (ingroup) matchings than in between group (outgroup) matchings or in a control setting …
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publications in Wiley and Springer Nature journals at the cost of other journals. From that two related competition concerns emerge …
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specialization can reflect an efficient response to the competitiveness of the labor market and may arise even when all workers have …
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In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … competitiveness and labour market success and whether these effects depend on how the students’ propensity to compete is measured. By …
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In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers’ career progression may also depend on their relative rankings in dimensions a priori unrelated to their job performance, such as visibility or in-person presence. Such...
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This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in low-income countries. Major themes in the literature include the determinants and consequences of joining the formal sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial...
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The structure and functioning of the market of higher education in the United States possess distinctive if not puzzling features such as the wide spectrum of institutional arrangements and sources of funding, stark segmentation in levels of selectivity and instructional resources, and high...
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through asset building. The theoretical and empirical results indicate that an increase in the initial level of competition … implies greater export incentive. However, over the life cycle of a firm, the role of competition is impacted by the intensity … of capital accumulation and the initial level of wealth. Greater local competition before the entry of firms in the …
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of multi-homing on both sides is mostly ignored in the literature on competition between two-sided platforms. We help … fill this gap by developing a model for platform competition in a differentiated setting (a Hoteling line), which is …
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choices using the example of child care – a public good arguably valued by women. We hand-collect micro-data for 224 …
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