financing systems aimed at increasing the competition between universities by making their pubic funds dependent on their … increased competition between universities causes grade inflation …

compete and that the effect of health on competitiveness differs with socio-economic background. Health has a strongly …

, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …

competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms …

impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the …

development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades …, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth …. Fearing that this declining impact would undermine the international competitiveness of the economy, real labor compensation …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …