wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the … negative relationship still holds when job competition is measured following the job search literature. While for men the wage …

competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We …

of enforcement activity by European competition authorities in labor markets relative to the US. While enforcement action … competition enforcement in labor markets. The article identifies sectors and practices that may be scrutinized with priority by … European competition authorities and proposes a mix of enforcement, merger control and well-targeted policy and regulatory …

that fix the number of pharmacies in a city, we use RDD to measure the effect of competition on sellers' ability to extract …

, however, full information reduces negative reciprocity and competition. …

regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among health insurance companies, German federal regulation required … increase. -- health insurance ; health plan switching ; price competition ; price elasticity ; SOEP …