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The potentially adverse impact of carbon pricing on the competitiveness of businesses and economies has been a matter of concern to industry and policymakers. It has also been a barrier to progress on carbon pricing. The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition launched the High-Level Commission on...
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Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there...
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men without the element of direct competition, which allows for the identification of psychological effects of competition …
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changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …
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Competition in the labor market theoretically leads to higher wages, yet empirical evidence to substantiate it …, particularly in developing countries, has been sparse. Our study delves into the impact of increased competition in the labor …-owned enterprises gained the most from this upswing in competition, primarily due to restructuring. Furthermore, we demonstrate that …
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We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
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these shares in order not to fall behind in the international competition, they must accept a rising public debt and/or must …
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In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the … impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S and (3 … potential endogeneity problems. It turns out that foreign competition leads to an increase of average per capita executive …
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The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries. Concretely, we run a horse-race among alternative Marshallian...
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This paper first finds a clear pattern of child gender difference in family migration in China. Specifically, our estimates show that on average, the first child being a son increases the father's migration probability by 25.2 percent. We hypothesize that the family's competitive earning...
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