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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 …
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limitations of the available data, and the potential implications of common ownership for competition in Australia. …
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The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market …
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A product market is concentrated when a few firms dominate the market. Similarly, a labor market is concentrated when a few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the leading employment website CareerBuilder.com, we calculate labor market concentration for over 8,000...
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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 …
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Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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We empirically test whether executives' increases in base salary when promoted to CEO result from the wage bids of competing firms (i.e., "market-based tournaments") or from the strategic choices of the firm's board of directors to elicit optimal executive incentives (i.e., "classic...
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Are excessively concentrated markets inequitable as well as inefficient? We explore this issue by analyzing the degree of market concentration in the industries where Australia's wealthiest made their fortunes. Compared with the economy at large, we find that top wealth holders have tended to...
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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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: judiciary, bureaucracy, and competition policy. To test our framework, we introduce a new panel of institutional reform measures …
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