considered here rests on the view that IT makes the acquisition of knowledge cheaper, which intensifies competition among workers … specialized in knowledge production. Those who lose in such competition end up displaced to occupations with a lower knowledge … inequality. The least skilled do not participate in this competition, as they are not specialized in knowledge production; they …

, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …

Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with minimum data requirements the direct distributional effects of market … telecommunications and corn products. The results show that increasing competition from four to 12 firms in the mobile telecommunications …

Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with minimum data requirements the direct distributional effects of market … telecommunications and corn products. The results show that increasing competition from four to 12 firms in the mobile telecommunications …

these shares in order not to fall behind in the international competition, they must accept a rising public debt and/or must …

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 …

SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and … especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a …