Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent … of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training … except when the competition is so severe as to threaten liquidation to a firm. We take this as evidence of an inverted U …

that this labor market competition channel can explain about one quarter of the large increase in the average immigrant …-native wage gap in the United States between the 1960s and 1990s arrival cohorts. Once competition effects and compositional …

employment. In this context, this study analyses the two-way linkages between FDI and domestic investment in Sub-Saharan Africa … attracting foreign investment to non-resource rich countries. -- FDI ; private investment ; public investment ; Africa …