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 … companies can be also observed in some countries. Higher prices impede firm competitiveness in at least two ways: a) investments …

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 …

-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a …-sector level as a new competitiveness indicator where the relevance of trading partners is quantified by an appropriate value … competitiveness at the sectoral level for Germany, and compare the empirical evidence with selected other euro area countries …

In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … competitiveness and labour market success and whether these effects depend on how the students' propensity to compete is measured. By …

its competitiveness and decreased exports towards its European trading partners. Our findings do not provide empirical …

this decline in labor market competition cost workers about 4 percent in lost earnings. I also find evidence that …

the fraction of young adults living with their parents in Mediterranean Europe. This paper presents a cultural … living arrangements in Northern and Southern Europe on account of the closer parent-child ties in Southern Europe. Such an … country of origin, the US living arrangements of second-generation immigrants mimic those in Europe across countries …

Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of …, productivity, innovation, and survivability - in a RDD framework where the controls comprise establishments that negotiated over … establishment performance. Indeed, the positive effects reported for wages, productivity, and innovation are sustained in …