rates. Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) we employ the proposed indicators to shed new light on changes in cost …

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 …

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 …

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have … the effects of local industry concentration on productivity.The main results show that a decline by 10 points in the … Herfindahl-Hirschman index (on a 0-100 scale), a measure of market concentration, explains an increase by 1 percent in the total …

designed to measure the individual-specific productivity parameters from this model. We observe these productivity parameters …

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …