, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …

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 …

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 …

a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major … competition over 1999 through 2011 in the range of 2.0 to 2.4 million …

2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage …

East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between …

start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …