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 …

.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

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 …

behavior by presenting a framework of competition between two contestants from two different groups. The results are examined …

effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state …

Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm …, product market competition does not have an effect on firm-sponsored training. We conclude that increasing competition through …

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

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 …