This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle …

the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …

early childhood intervention program that measures knowledge of narrowly defined skills on essentially equivalent subsets of … detailed knowledge measures. We reject the hypothesis of aggregate scale invariance and call into question the uncritical use …

qualitative nature of our findings is similar between Cournot and Bertrand competition, suggesting that our results are robust to …