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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level : New Measures Based on Global Value Chains
Marczak, Martyna - 2018
rates. Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) we employ the proposed indicators to shed new light on changes in cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919512
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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125476
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Capital Prices and Eurozone Competitiveness Differentials
Askenazy, Philippe - 2013
Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour costs or labour-market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and building prices. European countries, especially France,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086230
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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836579
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Is Being Competitive Always an Advantage? Degrees of Competitiveness, Gender, and Premature Work Contract Termination
Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021
In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of premature employment and training contract termination in the apprenticeship education sector. The paper extends the small but growing evidence on the external relevance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214530
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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness : Evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2010
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of "dirty" goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141417
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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps : An International Study
Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2021
in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316922
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School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions : International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling
Falck, Oliver - 2010
effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141425
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An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
qualitative nature of our findings is similar between Cournot and Bertrand competition, suggesting that our results are robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131419
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The Rise of the East and the Far East : German Labor Markets and Trade Integration
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2012
and export exposure. We find that the rise of "the East" in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104067